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22-09-2006, 08:09
Three Palestinians were killed by an Israeli shell on Thursday near a rocket launcher in northern Gaza shortly after two make-shift rockets were fired into Israel, damaging a water pipe and a building.
Palestinian residents and witnesses said the three were teenage shepherds.
An Israeli military spokesman said the three had been tampering with a rocket launcher when they were fired on.
Earlier, Israeli special forces backed by a transport helicopter killed a woman in a raid on a house in the southern Gaza Strip.
The woman, 35, died after soldiers stormed the house belonging to a member of the governing Hamas movement near Rafah, a town on Gaza's southern border with Egypt.
Palestinian residents and witnesses said the three were teenage shepherds.
An Israeli military spokesman said the three had been tampering with a rocket launcher when they were fired on.
Earlier, Israeli special forces backed by a transport helicopter killed a woman in a raid on a house in the southern Gaza Strip.
The woman, 35, died after soldiers stormed the house belonging to a member of the governing Hamas movement near Rafah, a town on Gaza's southern border with Egypt.