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| By israelinsider staff and partners October 30, 2007 |
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An IAF missile strike hit a police station in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis late Tuesday, killing at least four Hamas men according to early Palestinian reports.
The IDF confirmed the strike. Earlier Tuesday, the IDF fired a missile that hit a house in northern Gaza, wounding at least three civilian. The IAF said the missile misfired and hit the house.
The strike followed the firing of ten mortars at an Israeli town near Gaza. One mortar landed near a house, setting it on fire. Several shock victims were treated by emergency medical teams. Two Kassam rockets also struck the western Negev region of Israel earlier Tuesday evening, but neither caused casualties or damage.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that a major operation in Gaza was inevitable and approaching.
Illustrating why the status quo is intolerable, an Egyptian police official announced that three Palestinians arrested earlier this month in a secret border tunnel linking Gaza and Egypt are members of an al-Qaida-inspired group, Army of Islam, that had planned to carry out suicide attacks in Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported. The group is believe to be responsible for the kidnapping of captured IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit and BBC correspondent Alan Johnston.
A fourth man was believed to have escaped back to Gaza. One of the three arrested, Youssef, was wearing a suicide belt at the time of the police raid on the tunnel.
The group was believed to be in contact with an Egyptian driver who was to drive the men to central Sinai, from where they were to make their way to Israel to carry out suicide attacks in a coastal Israeli city, the official said, without providing more details, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Palestinians were arrested in a tunnel south of the Rafah border crossing at Al-Dohnia, as they were making their way from Gaza to Egypt.
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