Jihad leader killed
2003-12-25 19:14
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Gaza City - A military leader of the radical group Islamic Jihad and four other Palestinians were killed on Thursday, and seven people wounded, when Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a car here, Palestinian medical sources said.
Islamic Jihad leader Moqbel Hamid was killed when a missile struck the car in which he was traveling, the sources said.
The Israeli army said in a brief statement that it had targeted Hamid.
"During an operation in the Gaza Strip this evening, the car of a senior Islamic Jihad official responsible for a series of deadly attacks" was targeted, a statement said.
Earlier, witnesses said the gunships had fired two missiles at a car on Al-Jalah Street, in a northern district of the city.
- SAPA