Israeli airstrike kills three Hamas militants in Gaza: medics
AFP, December, 2007
GAZA CITY (AFP) — An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip killed three Hamas militants overnight, medics said Tuesday.
The attack targeted a Hamas position in the south of the territory where the Islamists violently seized power in mid-June, they said.
The victims were all members of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades. One of them died instantly and the other two died of wounds in hospital, they said.
The Israeli military had earlier confirmed that it had carried out the ...