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Four dead in attacks on Gaza
By Julie Webb-Pullman
Four people have been killed today, Friday, in Israeli aerial attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Medical officials have confirmed that the head of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) Zuhair Qaisi, also known as Abu Ibrahim, and Mahmoud Hanani, a former prisoner released by Israel four years ago, were killed by an Israeli strike targeting a car in Deir al-Hawa, western Gaza.
A few hours later Obeid al-Ghirbali and Muhammad Harara of Islamic Jihad were killed in another air-strike.
A statement from the the An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades, the PRC's armed wing, promised a "seismic response" to the assassination of their leader, and have called on Egypt to intervene.
"The enemy by targeting Abu Ibrahim has opened the doors to hell and the continuous revenge for all our martyrs and the response will be by the size of this heinous crime."
The first assassinations have led to a flurry of
rocket fire from Gaza, to defend themselves from the new
spate of targeted killings by Israel.
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