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Palestinian killed in Israeli air raid

Palestinian killed in Israeli air raid

August 6, 20120 comments

Palestinian Information Centre
05/08/2012

GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian youth was killed and a number of others were wounded in an Israeli aerial raid on western Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, at noon Sunday.

Local sources told the PIC reporter that an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired at least one missile at a motorbike killing its driver instantly and wounding a number of passersby.

They said that the raid targeted fighters for the popular resistance committees.

Medical sources said that the martyr was 23-year-old Eid Hijazi.

ENDS

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