Hamas claims victory as Israel withdraws forces 3 hours 56 minutes ago
Vice Premier Haim Ramon said that the operation had run its course.
Vice Premier Haim Ramon said that the operation had run its course. (Reuters: Ronen Zvulun)
Hamas has declared a "victory" in the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian militant group and residents said Israeli troops had pulled back to the border from positions taken inside the north of the enclave in recent days.
GAZA CITY - Five Palestinian activists were killed early Monday in raids by Israeli aircraft and shelling of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli navy, Palestinian security officials said.
Three activists died in a double raid carried out by Israeli warplanes on the eastern sector of Gaza City.
Two of the armed militants belonged to the Popular Resistance Committees and the third to the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, the officials said without naming them.
Another Hamas military wing member, Ibrahim Al-Masri, 20, was killed in Shatti refugee camp during the naval bombardment.
A member of Hamas’s maritime police, Darwich Miqbab, was killed in an air raid on Nusseirat camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, the movement said.
Israeli warplanes carried out five other raids against metal workshops throughout the Gaza Strip, after two earlier raids late Sunday had destroyed a metal workshop and injured one person.
Yet another air raid destroyed the headquarters of members of the Palestinian parliament in Khan Yunes in the south of the Strip, the official said.
Ten Palestinians, including two civilians, were killed on Sunday, medics and witnesses said, amid the continuing air and ground blitz that Israel says is aimed at halting militant rocket fire against its territory that killed one Israeli civilian last week.
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