- GAZA (Reuters) -- Israeli
helicopter gunships on Sunday fired at least three missiles at the home
of a member of the militant Islamic group Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip.
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- Nine people were wounded in the strike at the house in
the Khan Younis refugee camp, medics said. Before the strike, Palestinian
residents said helicopter gunships were flying over the Gaza Strip.
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- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has vowed to track
down and kill militant groups behind a wave of suicide bombings in a three-year-old
uprising against Israeli occupation.
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- Sharon said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday
that Hamas leaders were "marked for death". He vowed to keep
up the hunt for them which was intensified after a suicide bomber killed
22 people on an Israeli bus in Jerusalem on August 19.
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- Israeli air strikes have killed 12 Islamic militants
in the Gaza Strip since the suicide bombing.
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- An Israeli fighter plane fired a missile at a house in
Gaza City on Saturday, and wheelchair-bound Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh
Ahmed Yassin escaped with light wounds. Hamas vowed to avenge the strike.
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