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UPDATED: 16:12, August 10, 2006
Death toll rises to 3 in Israeli airstrike in Gaza
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Death toll rose to 3 in an Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza City on Wednesday evening, medics and eyewitnesses reported.

They said that two Palestinian militants and a 2-year-old baby girl were killed and three wounded in the Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza City.

An Israeli attack Apache helicopter fired one air-to-ground missile at a training camp belongs to the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) at al-Zarga neighborhood north of Gaza City.

Ambulances arrived at the scene to evacuate the bodies of Palestinians and the three wounded to hospital, they said, adding that they were all members of the PRC.

One of the wounded was in serious condition, witnesses added.

Medics in Shiffa Hospital in Gaza city said that two militants are 22 and 19 years old, adding that a 2-year-old female infant was also brought dead to the hospital.

The PRC is one of three organizations led by Islamic Hamas movement has been responsible for capturing an Israeli soldier on June 25 in southern Gaza Strip, sparking an Israeli offensive against Gaza.

The group is also responsible for launching a series of homemade rockets from Gaza Strip at Israel.

Source: Xinhua


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