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Israeli airstrike kills 5 Palestinian militants
Gaza training camp targeted; dead include 4 relatives of top commander

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - An Israeli aircraft attacked a training camp used by Palestinian militants in Gaza City on Friday, killing five militants, including four relatives of a top commander, Palestinian officials said.

The slain men were training at a base used by the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella group responsible for numerous rocket attacks against Israel, the officials said. During five years of fighting, the Israeli army has killed dozens of militants in so-called targeted killings.

The air strike scattered body parts and left pools of blood in a field just yards away from the home of Moumtaz Dourghmush, the group’s top militant commander. Dourghmush was not at the scene, but a brother and three cousins were among the dead, hospital officials said.