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An unmanned Israeli drone targeted a vehicle thought to be carrying members of Popular Resistance Committees. Palestinians gather around the targeted car in Gaza City.
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4 dead in Israeli air strike
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14/12/2005 17:45 - (SA)
Gaza City - At least four people were killed and three others wounded on Wednesday in an Israeli air strike on their vehicle in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses and medical sources said.
The explosion happened as the car was driving through an eastern suburb of Gaza City with Israel claiming it was en route to carrying out an attack.
Witnesses said an unmanned drone had fired two missiles at the vehicle, which was carrying members of the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella militant organisation.
The force of the explosion scattered body parts and completely destroyed the car which was being driven close to the security fence between Gaza and Israel.
The Israeli army, which has carried out a number of targeted killing operations in recent days, confirmed it had carried out a raid, saying the vehicle was "on the way to carrying out an attack against an Israeli target", without giving further details.
Israel continues with air strikes
A military spokesperson said the size of the explosion "shows that explosives were being transported in the vehicle".
Israel pulled all of its troops out of the Gaza Strip in September but has continued to launch sporadic air strikes in response to attacks.
Israeli defence minister Shaul Mofaz gave the green light to the resumption of targeted killing operations in the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack in the coastal city of Netanya on December 5.
That attack was carried out by a member of Islamic Jihad, which like all the main militant factions, is meant to be observing a truce.
A member of the Popular Resistance Committees who was said to have collaborated with Jihad in anti-Israeli attacks was killed in an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip on December 7.
A member of another armed faction, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was killed in an air raid on a house in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on the following day.
The latest deaths raised to 4 911 the overall toll since the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, began in September 2000. More than three-quarters of the victims have been Palestinian.
