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Titolo: Israeli troops kill six Palestinians in Gaza Strip

Israeli troops kill six Palestinians in Gaza Strip 
 
 
 
Tanks, aircraft target Palestinians positions; Dahlan quits as security
advisor
GAZA CITY/RAMALLAH: Six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on
Thursday, as ground troops raided the southern Gaza Strip and attack
aircraft launched a series of sorties targeting freedom fighters. 
It was the deadliest day of Israeli-Palestinian violence in three weeks
and cut against recent diplomacy designed to revitalise defunct peace
talks and bolster Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas since Hamas seized
control of Gaza. 
An Islamic Jihad commander and two activists from the group were killed
when an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles into a car in Gaza City. 
Witnesses said the rockets slammed into the vehicle at an intersection in
the southern part of the city and that one bystander was wounded by
shrapnel. 
Islamic Jihad announced the dead as Omar al-Khatib, 39, one of the main
commanders of its military wing who escaped assassination in an Israeli
raid on Tuesday, and two of his assistants, Khalil al-Doiueifi and Ahmed
al-Balaawi. 
The group has claimed responsibility for the vast majority of recent
deadly attacks in Israel and regularly claims to have fired rockets into
the Jewish state from the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military spokesman said
the air strike had targeted “members of Islamic Jihad who were involved in
‘terrorist activities against Israel.” 
Earlier on Thursday, Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles launched an
incursion into the southern Gaza Strip, sparking clashes with Palestinian
gunmen as bulldozers ripped up farm land in the Rafah area, witnesses
said. 
Sharif Breissi, 33, from the military wing of the Islamist movement Hamas,
which has controlled Gaza for more than a month, was fatally wounded by
tank fire around Rafah, medical sources and witnesses said. 
Three Jihad gunmen were wounded in another Israeli air strike was called
in during the incursion and at least three Palestinians were arrested,
medics and witnesses said. 
A third Israeli air raid against the densely populated and impoverished
Gaza Strip wounded two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip targeting
launchers used to fire rockets into Israel, medical and army sources said. 
A sixth Palestinian — 20-year-old Jihad al-Shaer—was shot dead by Israeli
forces in the occupied West Bank village of Taqoa, near Bethlehem, after
attacking a soldier at a checkpoint, medics and witnesses said. 
Meanwhile, Fatah’s one-time Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan quit as
national security advisor on Thursday more than a month after Hamas
smashed Palestinian security forces and captured the Gaza Strip. 
The 45-year-old Fatah MP and former Gaza strongman was appointed national
security advisor on March 18, but in practice had vacated the job since
Abbas dissolved the Palestinian “national security council” on June 18. 
Detested by Hamas, he is a former minister of internal security and
one-time chief of Gaza’s powerful preventive security force. 
Some within Fatah hold Dahlan responsible for the security services’
defeat at the hands of the Islamist fighters in Gaza, and he has spent the
past month in Egypt for what is expected to be a lengthy barren spell. 
Seen as one of the closest US allies in the Palestinian Authority, he is a
leading figure in the young guard of top Fatah officials—Hebrew-speaking
men who grew up in the territories under Israeli occupation after 1967. 
Hamas heavily criticised Dahlan’s appointment as national security
advisor, accusing him of trying to organise a “coup” within Fatah and of
trying to assassinate sacked Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. 
Born in 1961 to a Gaza refugee family, Dahlan became a member of Arafat’s
Fatah movement, going on to lead its youth wing, the Shabiba, in the West
Bank. 
He was very active in the first Palestinian intifada (1987-1993) as
student leader. He was in and out of Israeli jails between 1981 and late
1986, before being deported to Jordan in 1988. 
He later joined the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Tunis where
he won Arafat’s confidence. 
Dahlan returned to the Gaza Strip in 1994 at the launch of self-rule after
the 1993 Oslo accords to become the head of the preventive security forces
as part as Arafat’s Palestinian Authority. 
During his seven years in the job, he was heavily criticised by human
rights groups for the methods used to crack down on Islamic activists, and
he was also dogged by corruption allegations.
 
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 Israeli troops kill six Palestinians in Gaza Strip
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