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Israeli forces hit Gaza targets
Relatives mourn the two Palestinians
killed [Reuters]


An Israeli attack on a car in northern Gaza Strip has killed two Palestinians and wounded three others, medical sources and witnesses say.
 
The attack in the town of Beit Hanoun came after fighters from the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades fired rockets towards towns in southern Israel. The group identified the dead as its own.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said ground forces fired on a Palestinian rocket crew.
 
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is an armed wing of the Fatah, led by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president.

The Israeli military said ground forces struck a rocket squad about to fire at Israeli towns.

 

Al-Aqsa said it fired 10 rockets on Thursday by midday.

 

Israeli aircraft later struck an electricity transformer, causing no casualties. But power was knocked out in several homes, according to Said Hamad of the Beit Hanoun town council.

 Source: Agencies
 
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