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JERUSALEM: Three members of the Palestinian jihad movement have been killed in a pre-emptive strike carried out by Israeli Air Force in the Gaza
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Israel Defence Forces (IDF) claimed the strike was conducted as the three were on their way to launch rockets at Israel on Friday night.
Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet and army were operating in the area when they spotted the three unloading rocket launcher equipments from a vehicle, it said.
Palestinian sources said the deceased were Islamic jihad operatives and were killed near the Jabalya refugee camp.
"Preliminary reports are that there are three dead and an equal number injured," Ihab Al-Ghusein, a spokesman for Hamas run interior ministry in the Gaza Strip, said.
Mu'aweiyah Hassanein, head of ambulance and emergency services at Gaza's Health Ministry, identified the deceased as Kamel Ad-Dahduh, Mahmoud Al-Bana and Mohammad Marshud.
It is the first targeted air-strike carried out by Israel in the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip since its major offensive in December-January that left about 1,400 people dead, triggering a major international outcry.
The IDF has responded to sporadic Palestinian rocket fire by destroying smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor, on the Gaza-Egypt border.
Strip.
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) claimed the strike was conducted as the three were on their way to launch rockets at Israel on Friday night.
Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet and army were operating in the area when they spotted the three unloading rocket launcher equipments from a vehicle, it said.
Palestinian sources said the deceased were Islamic jihad operatives and were killed near the Jabalya refugee camp.
"Preliminary reports are that there are three dead and an equal number injured," Ihab Al-Ghusein, a spokesman for Hamas run interior ministry in the Gaza Strip, said.
Mu'aweiyah Hassanein, head of ambulance and emergency services at Gaza's Health Ministry, identified the deceased as Kamel Ad-Dahduh, Mahmoud Al-Bana and Mohammad Marshud.
It is the first targeted air-strike carried out by Israel in the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip since its major offensive in December-January that left about 1,400 people dead, triggering a major international outcry.
The IDF has responded to sporadic Palestinian rocket fire by destroying smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor, on the Gaza-Egypt border.
