- GAZA (Xinhuanet) -- A total
of four Israeli soldiers were injured by a roadside bomb near the Southern
Gaza Strip town of Rafah, an Israeli spokesman said Sunday.
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- An explosive device went off early on Sunday when an
armed personnel carrier was passing by the road near the border with Egypt,
he said.
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- All of the injured were immediately transferred for treatment
toa hospital in Beer Sheba, near the Gaza Strip, he added.
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- Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad,
claimed responsibility for the attack later in a leaflet.
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- The brigade said its militants had planted a 50-Kilogram
explosive device on the road frequented by Israeli army patrols andmachineries.
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- "This attack comes in response to the Zionist deportation
policythat targeted Palestinian militants and leaders, as well as the Zionist
massacres carried out against Palestinians," the leaflet said.
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