5 killed, 70 detained in large Israeli offensive on Gaza

China View, December 12, 2007

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Five Palestinian militants were killed and four Israeli soldiers wounded during a large-scale Israeli military operation in southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics and Israeli army said Tuesday. Palestinian residents of al-Fakhari village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, said that 30 Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers stormed the village at predawn in the day.

Five Palestinian militants were killed and four Israeli soldiers wounded during a large-scale Israeli military operation in southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics and Israeli army said Tuesday.

A wounded Palestinian is carried to a hospital after an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip Dec. 11, 2007.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

Mahmoud Abu Tahha, a 55-year-old resident, said a column of tanks and personnel armored vehicles stormed the village before dawn as bulldozers cleared up the ground of roadside bombs.

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