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At Least Five Israeli Soldiers Killed In Gaza Raid
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At least 11 Palestinian people were killed and 130 others injured since the Israeli incursion began on Tuesday
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GAZA
CITY, May 12 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - At least five
Israeli soldiers were killed Wednesday, May 12, when their armored
personnel carrier was destroyed during an Israeli incursion into the
southern Gaza Strip.
Israel
said the vehicle was near the border with Egypt when the bomb went off
but did not confirm casualties, reported the BBC News Online.
Eight
Palestinians who were near the site of the explosion sustained light
injuries from flying metal scraps, Palestinian medical sources were
quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Sources
close to Jewish settlers in the area said several Israeli soldiers
were seriously wounded in the blast.
A
bomb was remotely detonated against the vehicle, which was part of a
convoy driving through the border area near Rafah's refugee camps,
they added.
The
Popular Resistance Committee was responsible for the attack,
Palestinian security sources told CNN.
The
attack came as the Israeli army launched its biggest offensive in Gaza
for years, killing at least 11 Palestinians and wounding 130 others
since Tuesday, May 11.
The
occupation forces demolished buildings and burst into homes in the
densely populated Zeitoun quarter, backed up by snipers on rooftops
and Apache helicopters hovering overhead.
Navy
gunboats shelled the coast and opened fire on an area near Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat's Arafat's old compound.
Six
Israeli soldiers
were killed by the Palestinian resistance fighters during the
incursion on Tuesday, the highest Israeli casualty count in a single
army operation in two years.
Resistance
fighters displayed what they said was the head of an Israeli soldier
before TV cameras but reports said they would likely return the
remains to Israel.
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