Shoot-out in Gaza Strip ' leaves five persons dead

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Oclober 7, 1987 SA The Bee..

Danville, Va., Wednesda JERUSALLM IAPI An Tsraeli nition, the arm),. s tatemLiiit S¢1 jd, Shin Bet security dgent and four Pal- 'In my opinion, the Iiini)iinl fll. estinians armed with automatic materials ¢ind the nului'c, uf Ih(' weapons died in a shoot-out after a group indic'ated Ihe.v wL'I'e un thLJjI' L'(Ir ch¢ise in the Israeli.occupied way to carry OLIt cin atl(IL'k. 'J'h(' Gaia Strip, an Israeli army clash prevented thLim Ir(Im bL'III st¢ilLsmenl said loday. able to C¢irr>' it oul an(1 I'iiil¢ingei'i Ilk Maj, Gen.

Yilzhak MordeL'hai, lives,, MordL'L'h£ll tuld IhL' new4 L'oii- ference. commander of the Southern region, told a news conft'erence broadcast on Mordechai said other unident il ic'il Israeli army radio that the Palestin- people were drre5ted dl'tei. the slioi)l- iaiis were en I'oute to stage a lerror. out, Ile did nol eld b()rate, ui. proi'i(li' 1st attaL,k.

Fle did not specil'y the details of how seL'urit.v furL'('. target. spotted the car with Palestinians. Tivo ol, thè sluin Pdleslinia1i4 WLJI'L.

Authorities imposed an indefinlte identified as members of thLI TsldlliiL curfew around the Shusiyeh quarter of Gaza City where the clash oc- Jlhad or Holy War, a ftrloslem fund.,- curred 'fuesday night, army mentalist group whiL'h IsrdL'; spokesmen Sdid. thorities link to Yasser Ar&ifdt'4 The shoot-out took place after a Fatah guerrillas.

The two other Palestinians kill('Il chase near Gaza City about 11, miles south of the entrance to the werp. fi'om a group of six pi'isont'i'% Gaza Strip, acL'ording to the who escaped May 17 from a jiiil iii st(Itement and army officers. Gaza City.

Two ol. the escapeL's 'e1'' An army spokesman who de- recaptured recently lind the I'e%t I'i,. manded anonymity said the Pales- maln at large. tinians, two of them jail escapees, The group, all convicted ul. belonx- were traveling in two cars. ing to the outlawed Palestine Libei- After the clash, Israeli soldiers ation Organization, sawed throuK!i', found the Palestinian group was car- eight iron bars of a second.slorv will- rying two Soviet-made Kalashnikov dow and then climbed ove.r a w'all lil automatic rifles, two U.S.-made M- escape.

Some were serving teriii% 16 automatic rifles, two pistols, one for murder, arms smuggling iini.I renade and 25 magazines of ammu- throwing gasoline bombs.

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"Shoot-out in Gaza Strip ' leaves five persons dead," The Bee, 7 October 1987. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1987-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1987-013