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10 wounded in Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza Strip
www.chinaview.cn 2003-09-08 05:45

    GAZA, Sept. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Apache helicopters fired late Sunday night three missiles at a house at Al Namsawi neighborhood west of the southern Gaza Strip town of Kahn Younis, wounding at least 10 people, Palestinian witnesses reported.

    The residents said that the targeted house belonged to Abdel Sallam Abu Musa, a well-known militant of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas.It has not been known if Abu Musa was among the causalities caused by the Israeli airstrike on the house, they said, adding ambulances and firefighters arrived at the scene and flames of fireand dust were seen coming out from the targeted house.

    Medical sources at Nasser Hospital said that the 10 wounded sustained light and moderate wounds, caused by the fragments of the missiles. Enditem


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