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Article: Israel Launches Missile Attacks on Gaza
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 14, 2001
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GAZA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Air Force (IAF) launched
missile attacks Sunday Monday morning on Gaza city, striking targets
of the Palestinian security forces and radio and television
stations.
Several IAF Apache helicopters fired at least 16 air-to-air
missiles towards various selected targets in the city shortly after
midnight.
Initial reports said more than a dozen people were wounded, two
seriously, in the attack, and at least five houses were severely
damaged.
The missile attacks lasted for more than half an hour and the
Palestinian radio and televisions as well as buildings of the
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's personal guard "Force 17" inside
the city ...