- JERUSALEM -- A 12-year-old
Palestinian boy was killed and at least eight others were injured in an
Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Saturday.
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- Palestinian witnesses said an Israeli helicopter gunship
fired a missile at a car driving through one of the main streets in Gaza
City at midmorning.
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- Palestinian doctors said 12-year-old Tarek Sousi was
killed as he walked nearby. Among the injured was Azziz Mahmoud al-Shami,
a cousin and bodyguard of Abdullah al-Shami, one of the leaders of the
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
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- Four months ago Israel tried unsuccessfully to assassinate
Abdullah al-Shami in a missile strike on his home. Islamic Jihad has carried
out dozens of suicide bombings in Israel over the past decade.
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- Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia condemned the
attack as a cowardly aggression and accused Israel of trying to escalate
tensions.
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- Israel has carried out a number of similar attacks in
which leaders of Palestinian militant groups are targeted. The most recent
Israeli air strike occurred in December when a helicopter fired two missiles
at a car carrying Hamas militants. Eleven people were wounded in that incident.
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- In the West Bank, meanwhile, Israeli troops arrested
a man near Tulkarem overnight. They said the man was planning an attack
inside Israel.
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- Security sources said that he was an Islamic Jihad activist.
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- Two Israeli soldiers were wounded on Thursday when two
anti-tank missiles were fired at their patrol near Rafah close to Israel's
border with Egypt. Palestinian sources said that two people, including
a two-and-a-half year-old child, were wounded when the troops returned
fire.
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