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Israel Escalates Aggression After Hanoud's Assassination
Sunday, November 25, 2001
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GAZA
A day after Israeli forces assassinated Hamas member Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, Israeli helicopters and ground troops attacked a number of Palestinian Authority installations in the Gaza Strip early Sunday morning, news agencies reported.

Palestinian security officials say the Israeli army fired at least 20 missiles at Palestinian targets, wounding at least three people, including a boy who was critically injured when a wall collapsed on him.

A Palestinian security official said the Israeli military action constituted a "new Israeli aggression" that was pushing the region "to explode." The strikes followed a mortar bomb attack Saturday that killed an Israeli soldier near a Jewish settlement in Gaza.

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, said it fired the mortar bombs to avenge Israel's assassination of Hanoud, who was killed in a helicopter ambush Friday. He was a top member of Hamas's military wing, which has resisted Israel's military occupation for years.

Israel acknowledged it carried out Hanoud's assassination.
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