GAZA CITY: An Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip on Friday killed two Palestinian militants, Palestinian medical sources said. The attack near Bureij in the southern part of the Gaza Strip killed two 20-year-old members of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, Ayman Abu Said and Mohammed al-Hazin, said the medics.
It brings to 6,151 the number of people killed since the eruption of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000, the vast majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP tally.
Hamas hails EU call
Hamas on Friday welcomed a European Parliament resolution calling for an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Palestinian Islamist group. However, spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri was more circumspect with regard to the resolution’s call for an end to rocket fire on Israel by Palestinian militants in Gaza.
“Hamas welcomes the appeal launched by the European Union for an end to the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip,” Abu Zuhri said in a statement.
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