(28 Jun 2004)
1. Pan of Israeli army outpost after attack, zoom in to Israeli flag
2. Israeli soldiers at army outpost
3. Sun rising
4. Various of Israeli army outpost after attack
5. Various of Israeli army bulldozers
6. Palestinian houses with mosque in background
7. Israeli tank
8. Israeli police officer
STORYLINE
Palestinian militants killed an Israeli soldier when they blew up an army outpost in the heart of the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
In the carefully orchestrated attack on the outpost, militants dug a 350-metre (one thousand-foot) tunnel under concrete fortifications, and detonated
what they said were hundreds of kilogrammes (pounds) of explosives.
The blast brought down a building.
One soldier was killed after being trapped under the rubble. Five others were wounded.
Ambulances came under Palestinian fire as they evacuated the wounded.
Israeli troops fired from machine guns and tanks, killing a Palestinian police officer and a 15-year-old boy in a nearby village, medics said.
Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility, saying they were avenging leaders and key activists killed by Israeli in recent
months, including seven shot dead in the West Bank over the weekend.
The explosion went off shortly before 10 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Sunday, at an army outpost at the Gush Katif junction, near Gaza's largest bloc of Israeli settlements. The outpost is protected by reinforced concrete.
In a videotaped claim of responsibility, Al Aqsa said it used 1,500 kilogrammes (3,300 pounds) of explosives, though in an earlier phone call to
The Associated Press, the group said 150 kilogrammes (330 pounds) were used.
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