Thursday, July 12, 2007

IOF soldier killed, two wounded in Gaza incursion


IOF soldier killed, two wounded in Gaza incursion

"GAZA, (PIC)-- An IOF soldier was killed and two others wounded in the IOF incursion into central Gaza at an early hour on Thursday while two Palestinian resistance fighters were injured, one seriously, in the same area.

PIC correspondent reported that the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, ambushed an IOF unit that was attempting to infiltrate into the Gaza Strip east of Breij refugee camp.

He added that after the unit advanced 600 meters into Palestinian lands the armed wing's fighters blasted a new device in the troops and fired at them inflicting the casualties.

Security sources and eyewitnesses said that Israeli choppers were sent to evacuate the casualties as ambulance cars rushed to the borders with Gaza to carry a number of them.

The armed wing said in a communiqué that its fighters monitored the advancing unit and ambushed its members at 02.30 am (local time) Thursday......."

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