Hamas forces on Saturday battled Fatah gunmen with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza City neighbourhood, leaving nine dead.
Sharply escalating its military campaign, Israel dropped a 250kg bomb on a Gaza home on Wednesday to assassinate top Hamas fugitives, killing nine civilians as Islamic militant leaders got away. The nine dead were all members of the same family, including the parents and seven of their children.
Israeli aircraft on Tuesday fired three missiles into the presidential compound of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, wounding two people and leaving deep craters in the ground. The Israeli air strike came in response to homemade Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel, though it was not immediately clear why Abbas’s compound was targeted.
An Israeli aircraft fired missiles at an open area near a Palestinian refugee camp early on Monday, the army said, destroying two Palestinian rocket launchers in the latest attack to test a ceasefire. The air strike came hours after Israel’s Cabinet approved the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners.
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/ 21 October 2003
Eleven Palestinians died in a series of Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including eight in a refugee camp, where Israeli helicopters targeted a car on the main street. Israeli planes and helicopters struck five times on Monday, hitting a suspected Hamas weapons cache twice and a car carrying suspected militants.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad vow to retaliate
Israeli helicopters and tanks hit Gaza City early on Monday, targeting a main Palestinian security compound, while hundreds of kilometres away, a security guard foiled an attempt to hijack an Israeli passenger plane.