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Palestinian militant group claims responsible for Gaza attacks

GAZA, Apr 5, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An armed wing of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees of the Intifada claimed responsibility on Tuesday for carrying out two separate armed attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the southern Gaza Strip.

Abu Abeer, spokesman of Sallah el Dein Brigades, told reporters in a news conference that militants of the group blew up a roadside bomb under an Israeli army bulldozer on the borders between the Gaza Strip town of Rafah and Egypt.

He added that his militants also shot and seriously wounded an Israeli who worked near the Jewish settlement of Morag near Rafah.

"The attacks are to reiterate what the group had declared a few days ago that the group is not committed to the Cairo agreement of ceasefire with Israel reached among the 13 Palestinian factions," said Abu Abeer.

He stressed that his group would respond by armed attacks to any Israeli action carried out against the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.