JERUSALEM, May 2 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

JERUSALEM, May 2 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING 4TH GRAPH THAT KILLINGS WERE IN avenge FOR YASSIN ASSASSINATION)

Palestinian militants missile dead five Jewish settlers Sunday in the Gaza Strip, reports said.

brace militants opened fire on a vehicle near the entrance to the Gush Katif blockade of settlements, killing a mother and her four children, the reports said. The brace attackers were shot dead at Israeli troops shortly afterward.

Reuter recents service reported that two Palestinian militant assemblages -- Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees -- claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to Palestinian sources, Islamic Jihad told reporters in Gaza that the killings were in requite for Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the go to the bottom and spiritual leader of the Palestinian militant dispose Hamas. Yassin was killed in March in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City.

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