Israeli attack on Gaza kills two
Al-Akhbar | January 18, 2012
An Israeli aircraft and tank strike on the Gaza Strip killed two Palestinians and wounded another on Wednesday, according to a Hamas spokesman.
“We recovered one martyr and two other people with injuries after the air raid carried out by occupation aircraft in Beit Hanoun,” Adham Abu Selmiya said, naming one of the dead men as Mohammed Abu Awda, 23.
Seventeen-year-old Khaled al-Zaanin was critically wounded in the Israeli attack and later succumbed to his wounds, Abu Selmiya said.
The strike hit a field just east of Beit Hanoun, Palestinian security sources said.
There was no immediate confirmation that the men were indeed Hamas members.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the target was “a terrorist squad that was attempting to place an explosive device by the security fence” in the second such incident this year.
Israel has conducted a series of offensive strikes on the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, while Hamas has maintained a level of restraint as it presses ahead with reconciliation efforts with Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction.
Israeli General Benjamin Gantz warned last month that Israel should initiate another full-scale war with Hamas in Gaza that would be “swift and painful.”
Israeli airstrikes killed eight Gazans last month. The last deadly incident was on December 30 when Israeli warplanes killed a man near Gaza City.
The Jewish state maintains a siege over Gaza and continues to build illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

For the love of God I can’t see how IZ can claim to have left Gaza while it continues the continued an illegal siege by land air and sea.
How IZ left Gaza yet daily commits incursions into Gaza territories and still continues to kill Palestinians with impunity.
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