Israelis blow up homes of dead gunmen

ISRAELI troops yesterday blew up the homes of two Palestinian gunmen who attacked an office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud Party during a primary vote, killing six Israelis and wounding more than 20.

The gunmen, cousins from a West Bank village, were members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a militia linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction.

In the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, two more gunmen dispatched by the militant Islamic Hamas movement opened fire yesterday in the Jewish settlement of Dolah, wounding two Thai workers and an Israeli. One gunman was killed.