GAZA, December 28, 2008 (WAFA)- An Israeli attack on Al-Saraya security compound in the City of Gaza resulted in a number martyrs, all of whom are members of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fateh) kidnapped and held in the compound by Hamas militants.

As Al-Saraya, seized by Hamas militias in June 2007, was being shelled by Israeli warplanes, 51 kidnapped Fateh members tried to escape, but were violently faced by Hamas militants who forced them back into the compound.

Hundreds of families hurried, Sunday, to the location to rescue their sons, but Hamas militants opened fire at them, and at the kidnapped men trying to escape death.

Hamas had refused, Saturday night, to release fifty one kidnapped Fateh members from Al-Saraya Compund, they have been seen forcing 48 of them back by gun threats.

The number of martyrs in the Israeli attack on Al-Saraya is still unknown because Hamas militants are forcefully preventing journalists from coming to the scene. They beat a  at  journalists who approach the scene; they physically assaulted Ramattan photojournalist, Ahmad Abu-Ras.

However, eye witnesses say that at least twenty to thirty Fateh members were killed.