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Israeli kills senior Palestinian militant in Gaza

Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:55am EDT
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GAZA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Israel killed a senior Palestinian militant commander in an air strike on a car in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Israeli army and a Palestinian militant group said.

Witnesses said a missile destroyed the car on a coastal road in Hamas-run Gaza. Medical officials said one person was killed and one wounded.

Palestinian militant umbrella group Popular Resistance Committees identified the dead man as one of its top commanders, Mubarak al-Hasanat, who it said also worked as a senior police officer in Gaza's Hamas-led police force.

An Israeli army spokesman confirmed Israel had carried out a strike in Gaza that targeted a "senior terrorist in the infrastructure behind rocket attacks on Israel".

Israel regularly carries out air strikes inside the territory against Palestinian militants in an effort to curb the rocket attacks. Islamist group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June.


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