Nine Killed in Gaza Gun Battle

World | December 6, 2002, Friday // 00:00

At least nine people have been killed in a gun battle triggered by an Israeli armoured incursion in a Gaza Strip refugee camp. Some of the victims reportedly died when an Israeli tank shell hit a two-storey building in the al-Bureij camp. The dead included two Palestinian security officers. Another 10 - including a family of five - were wounded before the Israeli troops pulled out, according to local hospital officials.

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