Fighter Killed, Four Wounded, In An Israeli Airstrike Targeting Khan Younis

Tuesday January 05, 2010 22:36 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

The fighters are members of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees.

The slain fighter and the four wounded were moved to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The Brigades vowed retaliation, and said that it cannot stand idle while Israel is ongoing with its violations against the Palestinian people.
The fighter was identified as Jihad Al Sameery, 22.

Abu Mojahid, spokesperson of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades, said that the Israeli invasions, assassinations and attacks prove that “the Zionist enemy is seeking escalation”.

Abu Mojahid called on the fighters to retaliate and remain ready to defend the people and to counter the Israeli aggression.

Israeli strike kills two in Gaza

Published today (updated) 06/01/2010 16:21

Gaza – Ma’an –

An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian fighters near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday night.

Medics told Ma’an that an Israeli warplane fired several missiles at a group near the southern city, and said four people were treated for various injuries at the Al-Nasser Hospital in the city.

The Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), announced the death of 33-year-old field commander Jihad Al-Samari in an airstrike on the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis.

The group’s spokesman, Abu Mujahid, later announced that a second member had died from wounds sustained in the airstrike. He was identified as Mahmoud Abdul Ghafur, 25, from Khan Younis.

The group vowed in a statement to “respond to this crime.”

The Israeli occupation forces confirmed the strike, claiming that the group was preparing to launch shells into Israel.

The military also confirmed that one member of the PRC was killed and said that three others were injured.

Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills two, injures three

Press TV, Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:20:47 GMT

At least two Palestinian resistance fighter have been killed and three others critically injured in an Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza.

Israeli warplanes struck the Gaza Strip late on Tuesday near the southern city of Khan Yunis, Reuters reported.

The Popular Resistance Committees said its members had been targeted by the attack.

The fatality appears to be the first in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict this year, and the first since Israel killed six Palestinians in separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza in late December.

One killed, 4 wounded in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

    GAZA, Jan. 5, 2010, (Xinhua) --

A Palestinian militant was killed and four wounded during an Israeli airstrike in southeastern Gaza Strip late Tuesday, witnesses and medical sources said.

    An Israeli drone fired a rocket on a group of militants that was monitoring the security fence separating between Israel and Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, killing one and wounding four, the witnesses said.

    The fighters were apparently planning to fire a missile into the Israeli lands, added the witnesses.

    The dead and the wounded were transferred to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis where officials identified the dead as Jihad al-Sumiri, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an armed faction close to Gaza's Hamas rulers.

    The Israeli army stepped up its activities along the border with Gaza over the past weeks, targeting open spaces believed to contain tunnels leading to the electric fence.

    Earlier Tuesday, Abu Obaida, the spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, denied any undeclared truce between his movement and Israel in Gaza. However, he added that Hamas has ceased rocket attacks on Israel "for a specific, temporary time in understanding with the other factions."

    "There hasn't been any direct or indirect agreement with the Zionist enemy," he said.

The Israeli military kidnaps eight Palestinian civilians from the West Bank

Tuesday January 05, 2010 18:57 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC NEWS

The Israeli military kidnapped on Tuesday eight Palestinian civilians during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.

Local sources reported invasions in the cities of Hebron and Bethlehem, southern West Bank, as well as Jenin in the north.

The Israeli military announced that all those kidnapped have been taken to military detention camps for questioning.