Two Islamic Jihad fighters killed in Israeli air raid on northern Gaza Strip

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Date: 23 / 07 / 2007 Time: 09:31

Gaza – Ma'an –

Two activists from Islamic Jihad's military wing, the Al Quds Brigades, were killed in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun in an Israeli occupation air raid on Sunday.

Earlier on Sunday, Israeli sources reported that a woman from the town of Sderot, bordering the Gaza Strip, was injured by a Palestinian homemade projectile.

Eyewitnesses informed Ma'an that Israeli occupation helicopters and drones targeted a group of Islamic Jihad fighters in Beit Hanoun.

Earlier the Al Quds Brigades claimed responsibility for launching two homemade projectiles at the Israeli Western Negev town of Sderot. Israeli sources claimed that the group of combatants assassinated by the Israeli forces was the same group that launched the projectiles.

Medical sources from Kamal Udwan Hospital said the mutilated corpses of the victims of the Israeli air raid arrived at hospital in pieces.

Spokesperson of the Al Quds Brigades named the deceased as 21-year-old Abed ar Rahman Al-Kafarnah from Beit Hanoun and Muhammad Abu Seif, aged 24, from Jabalia.

The spokesperson confirmed that the Israeli jets pursued the group which targeted Sderot, killing two of them.

Meanwhile two Al Quds Brigades fighters survived after an Israeli aircraft launched a missile at their car, a white Subaru, on the coastal road near the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Gaza City.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that the missile fell near the car but no one was injured. Medical sources confirmed that there were no casualties from that particular attack.

***Updated at 11:13 AM

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