Five Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Gaza Strip
Israeli troops killed five Palestinians in fighting in Gaza City today.
The five were killed in Israeli airstrikes and exchanges of fire in Gaza City’s Shijaiyeh neighbourhood, Palestinian doctors and witnesses said. Five people were wounded, they said.
Also today, a Palestinian teenager injured in fighting in Shijaiyeh yesterday died of his wounds, the doctors said.
The troops have been operating in the neighbourhood since Saturday as part of an Israeli offensive launched in late June, after Hamas-allied militants killed two Israeli soldiers and captured a third in an attack on an army post.
