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9 April 2011
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At around midnight on Saturday 9 April 2011, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a group of young Palestinian men who were walking on the An-Nuss Street in the Tal As-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah town.
As a result, two persons were killed and one person was injured.
Al Mezan identified the names of the killed persons as follows:
Tayseer Sa’eed Abu Sneima, 27; and
Mohammed Ali ‘Awaja, 28.
Both of them sustained shrapnel in different parts of their bodies.
A third person, Shadi Mahmoud Az-Zatma, 28, was injured in the attack and was admitted to the Gaza European Hospital.
Medical sources described his injury as critical.
He sustained shrapnel injuries in different parts of his body, causing a fracture to his left jaw, and his legs were amputated.
An adjacent Subaru car was damaged.
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