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10 killed in new airstrike on rafah

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10 killed in new airstrike on Rafah

Rafah, , May. 19 (UPI) -- The Israeli army Wednesday fired rockets at Palestinians demonstrating in the Gaza militant stronghold of Rafah, killing at least 10 people.

Hundreds of Palestinians had gathered in the city's main square to protest Israeli military operations aimed at destroying tunnels being used to funnel weapons to Palestinians from Egypt.

Medics and witnesses said Israeli Apache helicopters fired at least three rockets on the crowd, killing at least 10 protesters and injuring dozens of others.

Rafah hospital officials said four Palestinians were shot and killed earlier Wednesday by Israeli rooftop snipers in the neighborhood of Tel Sultan. At least two of the men had fired at troops, reports said.

Israeli military officials said at the onset of the operation Tuesday that armed Palestinians would be shot on sight.

Armed men were ordered to surrender holding white flags, a procedure the army had taken in previous operations in the West Bank, Ha'aretz reported.

Also Wednesday, the Israeli army ordered all males, 16 and older, in the Tel Sultan neighborhood, to gather at a local school.

Israel Radio said the army demolished five houses in Rafah Wednesday, including the home of Islamic Jihad militant Ibrahim Ahmed, who on May 2 killed a pregnant Israeli woman and her four daughters.



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