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Israel Launches Another Attack in Gaza
Aired June 13, 2003 - 15:05 ET
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JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Well, more bleak and bloody news from the Middle East today. Israel has launched another attack in Gaza; part of what one official is calling an all-out war on Palestinian militants. CNN's Matthew Chance joins us now from Jerusalem. Matthew, with the very latest.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, Judy. And this comes, of course, in a week which has been marred by bloodshed and shattered hopes for peace in this Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This, the latest Israeli helicopter gunship strike on the streets of Gaza. The target of this air strike, according to Israeli military officials, is Adar al Adawi (ph), a prominent figure in the military wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. They say that Adawi (ph), along with a number of other people traveling with him, were intending to go to a location in the Gaza strip and to fire missiles from that place into Israel proper. It's something that's been happening a good deal over the course of the last few months and indeed the last few days as well.
Casualties, and there are many of them, coming to us from doctors at the Al Sheefa (ph) hospital in Gaza, saying that at the moment they can confirm one person has been killed as a result of this Israeli action. It's not clear, though, at this stage whether it is Adar al Adawi (ph).
At least 25 others, they say, people who were bystanders around the car as it was struck on that very crowded street in Gaza have also been injured. Twenty-five of those at least. Among them, they say, seven children.
So a great deal of concern about the sort of casualties that have been caused by this on the sort of perimeter of where the actual attack took place. Israeli officials saying the will hunt down leaders of the militant group Hamas. Many people fearing that this policy of assassination will lead to more violence -- Judy.
WOODRUFF: Matthew, no matter how many times we look at those pictures, they are just really and truly hard to stomach. All right. Matthew, thank you very much.
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Aired June 13, 2003 - 15:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Well, more bleak and bloody news from the Middle East today. Israel has launched another attack in Gaza; part of what one official is calling an all-out war on Palestinian militants. CNN's Matthew Chance joins us now from Jerusalem. Matthew, with the very latest.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, Judy. And this comes, of course, in a week which has been marred by bloodshed and shattered hopes for peace in this Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This, the latest Israeli helicopter gunship strike on the streets of Gaza. The target of this air strike, according to Israeli military officials, is Adar al Adawi (ph), a prominent figure in the military wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. They say that Adawi (ph), along with a number of other people traveling with him, were intending to go to a location in the Gaza strip and to fire missiles from that place into Israel proper. It's something that's been happening a good deal over the course of the last few months and indeed the last few days as well.
Casualties, and there are many of them, coming to us from doctors at the Al Sheefa (ph) hospital in Gaza, saying that at the moment they can confirm one person has been killed as a result of this Israeli action. It's not clear, though, at this stage whether it is Adar al Adawi (ph).
At least 25 others, they say, people who were bystanders around the car as it was struck on that very crowded street in Gaza have also been injured. Twenty-five of those at least. Among them, they say, seven children.
So a great deal of concern about the sort of casualties that have been caused by this on the sort of perimeter of where the actual attack took place. Israeli officials saying the will hunt down leaders of the militant group Hamas. Many people fearing that this policy of assassination will lead to more violence -- Judy.
WOODRUFF: Matthew, no matter how many times we look at those pictures, they are just really and truly hard to stomach. All right. Matthew, thank you very much.
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