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Hamas militants die in Gaza raid | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
Israel has carried out a helicopter attack on the north of the Gaza Strip in which six militants were killed, Palestinian hospital sources say. | |
Three of the dead were believed to be members of the Hamas Islamist group. | |
An Israeli army spokesman says the attack was launched after militants fired missiles at Israeli troops operating in the area. | |
Israel has carried out numerous raids which it says are aimed at stopping the firing of rockets into Israel. | |
Eleven others were injured in the Israeli strike, Palestinian medics say. | |
Palestinian eyewitnesses say the Israeli forces that came under attack from the militants was 400m from the northern border of the strip. | |
Also on Wednesday, the Israeli military said it had detained 10 suspected Palestinian militants in raids in the West Bank. | |
The official Palestinian news agency said five boys had been held in raids around the towns of Tulkarm and Salfit. | |
It said two were 16 years old, and described the others as pupils at a local secondary school. | |
It is not immediately clear if the Israeli and Palestinian accounts referred to the same incidents. | |
Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June last year when it defeated forces supporting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who now controls the West Bank. |