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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: December 22, 2004 |
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Israel sent tanks and bulldozers back into Gaza's Khan Younis refugee camp early Wednesday, just three days after ending a raid there in response to rocket and mortar fire by Palestinian militants.
Israeli forces in the camp killed three Palestinians, including two gunmen, Palestinian security forces said. Six Palestinians were wounded.
Israeli bulldozers also destroyed several homes in the camp. About 20 Palestinians demonstrated there carrying Palestinian and British flags and demanding Blair stop the demolitions.
Israel's earlier raid into the camp killed 11 Palestinians, most of them militants. But the rocket fire resumed after the army pulled out of the camp Sunday. In the last two days, mortar shells hit a synagogue and a kindergarten in nearby Jewish settlements.
The military said the current push would last about two days, and buildings used as cover by militants were being destroyed. Some exchanges of gunfire were heard, but there were no reports of casualties. |
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