Israel reportedly kills 4 in Gaza

An Israel Air Force strike killed four Palestinians launching mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian officials said.

Izvor: Ha'aretz

Sunday, 16.11.2008.

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An Israel Air Force strike killed four Palestinians launching mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian officials said. The violence was the latest in a surge of spiraling clashes that have rocked a 5-month-old truce between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers. Israel reportedly kills 4 in Gaza The militants killed in the airstrike were from a small Hamas-allied group known as the Popular Resistance Committees. A spokesman for the group calling himself Abu Attaya said the four were firing mortars into Israel when they were killed. The IDF said the airstrike targeted a rocket squad in northern Gaza. Palestinians launched two rockets earlier in the day into Israel, hitting near a community on the Israel-Gaza border. No one was hurt, the military said. According to the military's count, Palestinians have sent more than 170 rockets and mortars flying at Israel since the violence resumed nearly two weeks ago. IDF troops have killed 15 militants, and two more died in unclear circumstances. No civilians have been killed on either side. Meanwhile, Israel is keeping its crossings into Gaza shut because of the ongoing rocket fire, barring badly needed goods and fuel from entering the impoverished territory. United Nations food supplies in Gaza have been depleted and the fuel cutoff has led to power shortages. IDF spokesman Peter Lerner said officials would decide later Sunday whether to reopen them. International pressure to crack open the passages has been mounting.

Israel reportedly kills 4 in Gaza

The militants killed in the airstrike were from a small Hamas-allied group known as the Popular Resistance Committees. A spokesman for the group calling himself Abu Attaya said the four were firing mortars into Israel when they were killed.

The IDF said the airstrike targeted a rocket squad in northern Gaza.

Palestinians launched two rockets earlier in the day into Israel, hitting near a community on the Israel-Gaza border. No one was hurt, the military said.

According to the military's count, Palestinians have sent more than 170 rockets and mortars flying at Israel since the violence resumed nearly two weeks ago. IDF troops have killed 15 militants, and two more died in unclear circumstances. No civilians have been killed on either side.

Meanwhile, Israel is keeping its crossings into Gaza shut because of the ongoing rocket fire, barring badly needed goods and fuel from entering the impoverished territory. United Nations food supplies in Gaza have been depleted and the fuel cutoff has led to power shortages.

IDF spokesman Peter Lerner said officials would decide later Sunday whether to reopen them. International pressure to crack open the passages has been mounting.

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