GAZA CITY, ANT - Israeli aircraft fired a missile into a Hamas training ground in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday (3/16/2011), killing two fighters of the group.
Air raid struck the facility east of Gaza City, killing two people and wounding two others, said emergency services spokesman, Adham Abu Selmiya.
In a statement sent to AFP, the group said the death toll is Ghassan Abu Am (27) and Adnan Shtewih (25), both members of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Hamas.
The attack was aimed at training camp in the district of Abu Jaarad Zeitun used by Hamas security forces, witnesses said.
The Israeli military confirmed the air strike, saying that they were attacking "a center of active terrorism" after the morning rocket attacks into southern Israel, which did not drop the victim or cause damage.
After the air attack, a mortar was fired into Israel but no casualties or damage, the military said. The military said Gaza militants fired more than 60 projectiles into Israel since early this year.
Israel launched a 22-day war in the Gaza Strip two years ago with the aim of stopping rocket attacks and mortar fire almost every day to the Jewish state.
The number of attacks from the Palestinian enclave that has decreased dramatically since the war, although during the year 2010 nearly 200 rockets fired into Israel, the military said.
Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal regions, blockaded by Israel and Egypt after Hamas took power nearly three years ago.
Israeli all-out pounding the Gaza Strip two years ago with a pretext to stop firing rockets into the area almost every day the Jewish state.
War in and around Gaza erupted again after a six-month ceasefire ended on December 19, 2008.
Israel replied to Palestinian militants firing rockets into the Jewish state by launching massive air strikes and a ground offensive into Gaza in a war not worth the criticism and condemnation from across the world.
Air raid struck the facility east of Gaza City, killing two people and wounding two others, said emergency services spokesman, Adham Abu Selmiya.
In a statement sent to AFP, the group said the death toll is Ghassan Abu Am (27) and Adnan Shtewih (25), both members of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Hamas.
The attack was aimed at training camp in the district of Abu Jaarad Zeitun used by Hamas security forces, witnesses said.
The Israeli military confirmed the air strike, saying that they were attacking "a center of active terrorism" after the morning rocket attacks into southern Israel, which did not drop the victim or cause damage.
After the air attack, a mortar was fired into Israel but no casualties or damage, the military said. The military said Gaza militants fired more than 60 projectiles into Israel since early this year.
Israel launched a 22-day war in the Gaza Strip two years ago with the aim of stopping rocket attacks and mortar fire almost every day to the Jewish state.
The number of attacks from the Palestinian enclave that has decreased dramatically since the war, although during the year 2010 nearly 200 rockets fired into Israel, the military said.
Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal regions, blockaded by Israel and Egypt after Hamas took power nearly three years ago.
Israeli all-out pounding the Gaza Strip two years ago with a pretext to stop firing rockets into the area almost every day the Jewish state.
War in and around Gaza erupted again after a six-month ceasefire ended on December 19, 2008.
Israel replied to Palestinian militants firing rockets into the Jewish state by launching massive air strikes and a ground offensive into Gaza in a war not worth the criticism and condemnation from across the world.
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