Gaza: Daughter of Hamas Operative Killed After he Used Family as Human Shield.....

Scum of the Earth.....

GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- The daughter of a senior member of Hamas was killed and her two siblings and mother were wounded in an exchange of fire with Israel Defense Forces, who surrounded the house Saturday morning, Palestinian security forces said.

At the end of the gunfight in which 14-year-old Maryam Marouf was killed, her father, Talat Marouf, was arrested, the sources said.

An Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman confirmed that the IDF surrounded the house of a Hamas suspect Saturday morning.

Palestinians inside the house fired at the troops while the family was still inside, she said.

Israeli forces launched two airstrikes during the raid, targeting Palestinian militants who approached the troops, she said.

The family eventually asked to be allowed to leave the house, the IDF spokeswoman said, and the forces agreed. Afterward, the Hamas operative turned himself in, she said.

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