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Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians in ongoing operation in Gaza

By Xinhua

Gaza : The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including a civilian and a Hamas militant, on early Tuesday morning in an operation which is still going on.

A man named Ibraheem al-Shami was shot while he was on his rooftop watching the Israeli army operation. He fell off the roof after being shot and died at the scene in the Israeli ground offensive that started after midnight, according to witnesses. A few hours earlier, Israeli helicopters launched an air strike at the area, killing a Hamas militant who confronted army tanks rolling into al-Qarara neighborhood in Gaza, hospital officials said.

The raid killed Mohammed Abu Musameh, 24, and wounded more than10 people, including gunmen who were monitoring the Israeli army incursion into the eastern part of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza Strip.

“His body was completely torn down as the rocket hit the man directly,” a spokesman for the city’s Nasser hospital said. According to local residents, the Israeli army sent troops tothe area following clashes between Palestinian fighters and Israeli undercover forces which infiltrated Palestinian territories adjacent to the security fence.

The Israeli forces were backed by air cover of helicopters and reconnaissance drones which kept targeting the Palestinian gunmen and sometimes the fire hits nearby houses, witnesses said. The operation is still going on with the Israeli army pushing more reinforcements towards the Gaza Strip in addition to over 20tanks and bulldozers that are operating, according to local residents.