Israeli Helicopters Fire Missiles on Gaza Strip
Wednesday, April 11, 2001 09:51 AM EDT
GAZA, Apr 11, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Israeli fighters and helicopters
Wednesday afternoon fired two missiles on the Gaza Strip, a Xinhua correspondent
reported.
No reports of causalities are available so far.
The Israeli helicopters are stilling hovering over the city of Gaza, the report
said.
In an overnight raid Tuesday, Israeli ground forces entered the Palestinian Khan
Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip and destroyed 11 buildings
suspected of serving as bases for Palestinian mortar attacks on Israeli
settlements and army positions.
Two Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others were injured in the
attacks.
This was the first time that the Israeli army entered the area under full
Palestinian control since the outbreak of the current Palestinian Intifada, or
uprising, against Israel six months ago.
More than 450 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed, and thousands
more wounded since the Palestinian uprising began last September.
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