Nine Gazans martyred, dozens wounded in "Israeli" airstrike

 Source: Al-Manar, 16-02-2008
Nine Palestinians, including a commander of the Islamic Jihad movement, have been killed, with some 50 wounded in an explosion in the Gaza Strip, AlManar correspondent said Saturday. Islamic Jihad said an "Israeli" air strike caused the blast Friday, which also killed three other activists as well as the wife and two young children of the commander, Ayman Fayed, better known as Abu Abdallah.
"We condemn the "Israeli" crime perpetrated against the Bureij refugee camp," Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesman for the Islamic Hamas movement told reporters. "'Israel' bears full responsibility and will also suffer the consequences," he said.
Seventeen children were among the wounded, according to medical sources and witnesses. "The enemy is trying to deny responsibility for this crime, but it alone is responsible and all of its denials will change nothing," said a statement from the Islamic Jihad movement. A military spokeswoman of the "Israeli" occupying regime denied any role in the Gaza blast, saying "the "Israeli" army spokesman announces that the military has no connection to this matter."
"We will respond to this Zionist massacre painfully," Abu Ahmad, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad's armed wing said, "We will strike the enemy everywhere." Relatives said a son and daughter of the 41-year-old Fayed, aged 6 and 5, were martyred. Three of his other children were wounded. Some residents of the al-Bureij refugee camp said they believed there had been an airstrike.