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Four Israeli Soldiers Wounded in Gaza Blast
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The PFLP said the attack was in retaliation for Israeli war crimes committed in the West Bank
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OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, May 19 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Four Israeli
occupation soldiers traveling in a jeep were slightly wounded Sunday,
May 19, by a road-side bomb planted near a crossing point between the
northeastern Gaza Strip and Israel, military sources said.
The
soldiers were traveling in a convoy protecting a passenger bus headed
for a Jewish settlement in central Gaza and their jeep was flipped
over by the blast near the Karni crossing point, they said.
Palestinian
security services said that shortly after the attack, Israeli tanks,
armored vehicles, more jeeps and a bulldozer moved about 200 meters
(yards) into self-rule Palestinian lands in the area and leveled land
and ripped up trees, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The
armed wing of a Palestinian resistance group, the Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), later claimed the attack in a
statement released in Gaza City.
"This
is revenge for the crimes committed in the [Palestinian] cities and
refugee camps by the terrorist government of [Israeli Prime Minister]
Ariel Sharon," said the group, vowing to continue its
"operations.
Sharon
had launched a massive military offensive in the West Bank March 29,
attacking West Bank cities and villages. Hundreds of civilians were
killed and thousands rendered homeless in the offensive named
“Operation Defensive Shield.”
The
Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin was the scene of vicious fighting,
and witnessed many atrocities committed by the Israeli army.
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