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| Blast kills Islamic Jihad chief | |
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| An Islamic Jihad commander was among at least six people killed in an explosion at his Gaza Strip home that wounded more than 40 others. | |
| The blast flattened the Bureij refugee camp home of Ayman al-Fayed - known as Abu Abdallah - and damaged several nearby houses, witnesses said. | |
| An Islamic Jihad spokesman accused Israel of targeting the house in an air strike, and vowed revenge. | |
| Israel said it has no knowledge of a raid being carried out on the area. | |
| Officials from Hamas, the Islamist party which last year seized the Gaza Strip from the secular Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the cause of the blast was unclear. | |
| Vengeance vow | |
| Two of al-Fayed's children were also killed in the blast, Palestinian medics said, while the fate of his wife and three other children was unclear. | |
| "We will respond to this Zionist massacre painfully," said Abu Ahmed, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad's armed wing. | |
| "We will strike the enemy everywhere," he told Reuters news agency. | |
| Earlier this month, Israeli ministers said they may step up efforts to kill militant leaders in Gaza. | |
| Bureij is the smallest but most densely populated of eight refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. |