Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a car and a house...

Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a car and a house at a village near Jenin in the West Bank, killing five Palestinians, two of them children. Two Apache helicopters carried out the attack at Toubas village, near Jenin, firing two missiles. One destroyed a car that Palestinians said was carrying a militant and two teenagers. All of them were killed. The second missile, aparently overshooting the target, struck the house, demolishing it and killing a boy, aged nine, and a girl, thought to be aged six. Palestinians said the militant was Rafat Daraghmeh, a member of the al-Aqsa Brigades, which is part of the Fatah organisation founded by the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat.