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.
Relatives watch over the body of Mariam Marouf, 14, who died in an IDF raid on her house to arrest her father.
At the end of the exchange of fire, which killed 14-year-old Mariam Marouf, her father Talat Marouf was arrested, the sources said. The house is in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza.
An IDF spokeswoman confirmed that IDF surrounded the house of a Hamas suspect on Saturday morning.
Armed Palestinians fired from inside the house at the troops while the family was still inside, she said.
Israeli forces also launched two airstrikes in the raid, targeting Palestinian militants who approached the troops, she said.
The family eventually requested to evacuate the house, the IDF spokeswoman said, and the forces agreed. The Hamas operative turned himself in afterward, she said.
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Now a thousand more men will take up arms against the Zionist, and rightfully so.
