Israel Strikes Palestinian Police Offices, Six Killed
OCCUPIED GAZA CITY, July 30 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation helicopter gun ships fired missiles on the Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza City on Monday, Palestinian security officials said.
Two helicopters fired three missiles at the building, the national security commander for the Gaza Strip, Saeb al-Ajez, said.
It was not immediately known if there were injuries but witnesses said ambulances were rushed to the scene.
Other Palestinian security buildings in the area were being evacuated.
One security official said Israeli warplanes were flying over Rafah on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
The Israeli army confirmed an air raid on the Gaza Strip on Monday afternoon, claiming it was aimed at a weapons factory.
Israel and the Palestinians were also locked in a furious dispute over the cause of an explosion that killed six Palestinian activists in the West Bank earlier today.
Palestinian security sources say an Israeli tank fired at the building in the village of Fara, deliberately targeting the men.
Israel has denied any involvement, alleging that the men were blown up when a bomb they were preparing went off prematurely.
Palestinian occupation resistance activists have vowed a "rapid and painful" response to the blast which they say was an Israeli assassination.
Palestinian officials say the men belonged to the Aqsa Brigade, an armed faction of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, and were on Israel's most-wanted list.
Last week, the group said it was responsible for killing an Israeli teenager near the Palestinian-controlled West Bank town of Ramallah.
Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelossof told Israel Army Radio: "According to the information I have, it was a work accident. It's not the first time the Palestinians claim we killed a squad."
Palestinian officials say Israeli forces have killed more than 40 Palestinian activists since the start of the current uprising last year.
Monday saw a small bomb explode in an Israeli supermarket in west Jerusalem, causing no injuries but damaging the store.
The day before, a car bomb partially exploded in an underground parking lot at an apartment block in northern Jerusalem.
Two people suffered shock in the blast, which happened in the Jewish neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev.
Israeli police say the bomb could have brought down the whole building if it had properly detonated.
