Seperate Israeli attacks on Gaza on Thursday calimed the lives of 4 Palestinians and wounded about 40 others. Seperate Israeli attacks on Gaza on Thursday calimed the lives of 4 Palestinians and wounded about 40 others.
Palestinian media sources and medics said that Israeli warplanes fired on Thursday missiles on a Hamas oupost near the Falastin playground in Gaza city, wounding about 30 Palestinians.
Palestinian media sources and medics said that Israeli warplanes fired on Thursday missiles on a Hamas oupost near the Falastin playground in Gaza city, killing one Palestinians and injuring 30 others.
Rescue teams and ambulances rushed to the completely three-story building, as pillars of smoke were seen arising heavily in the sky.
The targeted building belongs to the Hamas-formed executive force, the former interior minister, Said Siyam of Hamas, has established.
Sources at the aL-Shifa hospital in Gaza confirmed one death and injury of approximately 30 people, including four critically.
Islam Shahwan, spokesman for the Executive Force, affirmed that four members of the force were wounded, and that the compound has been evacuated earlier.
Witnesses said that nearby buildings and houses werer damaged due to the heavy strike.
Meanwhile, an Israeli aircraft targeted a car, while driving at the Aljala’ street in Gaza city, killing two Hamas’s military wing members and wounding six others, believed to be bystanders.
Also, an Israeli air strike hit a car in the aL-Saftawi street in northern Gaza, killing one Hamas member, identified as Tal’at Haniya, Palestinian media sources reported.
A nother attack hit a caravan in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza city. No details were reported.
In the meantime, at least one militant from the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) was wounded when an Israeli missile targeted a group of resistance fighters who attempted to fire a homemade shell on Israel from northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli air crafts shelled yesterday two Hamas posts in Rafah, killing four Hamas members and wounding about 20 others.
Israel threatened Thursday it would step up attacks on the Gaza Strip, as more homemade shells have been fired on nearby Israeli towns over the past couple of days.
Furthermore, a group of the Islamic Jihad fighters escaped an Israeli air attack in northern Gaza, unconfrimed reports said.
In a related development, witnesses in northern Gaza said that a column of Israeli tanks has advanced some hundred meters into the Beit Lahiya town in northern Gaza.
Palestinian information minister, Mustafa Barghouti, described the Israeli strikes today as a ‘crime’.
