Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, March 04, 2004
Israeli Apache helicopters strike on Gaza, killing 3 militants
At least three Hamas militants were killed and six Palestinians were injured when an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship Wednesday afternoon launched missiles attacks ona Palestinian car in south of Gaza City, witnesses and medics reported.
At least three Hamas militants were killed and six Palestinians were injured when an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship Wednesday afternoon launched missiles attacks ona Palestinian car in south of Gaza City, witnesses and medics reported.
Witnesses said that a local Mitsubishi car that was driving near the Jewish settlement of Nitzarim on the coastal road south of GazaCity, was hit by two missiles fired from an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship.
They said that they heard two explosions, then fire, dust and black smoke came out of the car, adding that dozens of people and cars drivers rushed to the targeted car in an attempt to rescue the people inside.
Ambulances, rescue teams and firefighters arrived immediately atthe scene and began to evacuate the dead and the survivors from thearea.
Medics at Shiffa Hospital said that three Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) militants were killed and at least six people wereinjured, two of them in serious conditions, after they were hit bythe fragments and the shrapnel of the missiles.
Palestinian security sources said that the three killed aremembers of Ezzdine Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, adding that the three were wanted by Israel for being involved in carrying out attacks against Israel.
On Saturday, Israeli Apache helicopters had also targeted another Palestinian car, killing three Palestinian militants,members of Saraya Al Quds, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad movement. A bystander boy was critically injured.