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Israeli army destroys Palestinian homes GAZA CITY, Tuesday (AFP,Reuters) The Israeli army destroyed ten Palestinian houses during a dawn incursion into the refugee camp at Khan Yunes, in southern Gaza Strip, a source at the UN agency aiding Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said Tuesday. An armoured unit accompanied by bulldozers entered the camp and destroyed the homes after evacuating those inside. The Israeli forces then pulled out of the area, the source said. A US army spokesman confirmed that a military unit "had destroyed houses where Palestinians were firing mortars or other arms". Meanwhile Syria blamed Israel's Mossad intelligence service for a bombing in Damascus which a Palestinian source in Beirut said was a failed attempt to kill a member of the militant Hamas group. Hamas also accused Israel of being behind the attack which slightly injured three people and destroyed the silver sports utility vehicle owned by the unidentified Palestinian, who escaped unhurt. The attack was the second one of its kind in the Syrian capital in less than three months, and it came one day after Hamas and another armed Palestinian group killed five Israeli soldiers in a carefully planned attack on their outpost in Gaza. "The entity behind it is the Mossad; collaborators with the Mossad or the Mossad in particular," Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan told Syrian Satellite Channel when asked about who was suspected to be behind the explosion that targeted what he described as a Palestinian citizen. Meanwhile The United States and the European Union are in contact with Palestinian militant group Hamas despite having listed it as a terrorist organisation, a Hamas leader said in an interview broadcast on Monday. Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal told BBC television that the militant group, which has been at the forefront of a four-year-old Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, has no plans to agree a ceasefire unless it is decided by a referendum or negotiated among all Palestinian powers. |
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