Quds Brigades fighter killed in clash with IOF patrol

BEIT HANUN, (PIC)- The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, the Quds Brigades, on Monday declared that one of its fighters was killed in a clash with a special unit of the Israeli occupation forces east of Beit Hanun town to the north of the Gaza Strip. The armed wing said in a communiqué that Khaled Al-Kafarane, 22, was martyred during the armed clash while in the company of another fighter affiliated with the armed wing of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine – general command. It explained that the two engaged the special IOF unit while trying to advance into a field east of Beit Hanun for half an hour before IOF choppers fired two missiles at the fighters killing Kafarne while the fate of the other was still unknown. Meanwhile, local sources told PIC reporter that the Palestinian fighter Hussein Shamiya, 25, who was under treatment in an Egyptian hospital from severe wounds sustained in an IOF aerial raid while riding a motorbike in Khan Younis refugee camp late last month succumbed to his wounds late Sunday. http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.