Jun 8, 2010 — More details are emerging about the Israeli commando attack at sea on a group of Palestinian men wearing wet suits off the Gaza coast on Monday. First, the death toll is up to six after the bodies of two men washed up on the Gaza shore Tuesday. And then AFP reports a survivor who was on shore at the time of the attack confirmed reports from Monday that the men were members of the Fatah-affiliated terrorist group Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, but that they were training at the time of the Israeli attack and were not armed. However, the Israeli Defense Force said the unit's size and the equipment the men were carrying proves that a large terror attack had been stopped.
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