22 aug 2014
A Palestinian man was killed in an Israeli airstrike Friday afternoon on al-Zawayida area in the central Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
The death of Ismail Abu Ibteihan brought Friday's death toll to seven, a day after Israeli airstrikes killed 38 across the besieged coastal enclave.
Ahmad Qassim al-Abadlah, 69, died of wounds he sustained on Friday morning in a strike on al-Qarara in Khan Younis.
More than 65 Palestinians have been killed since Israel relaunched its assault on Gaza late Tuesday after a temporary ceasefire fell apart, bringing the total death toll in the six-week assault to more than 2,090.
Negotiations for a long-term truce, meanwhile, have so fair failed to achieve any result, as Israel has refused Palestinian demands that any truce be linked to end to the eight-year siege that has crippled Gaza's economy and reduced 1.8 million people to aid dependency.
Palestinians fear that without an end to the siege, reconstruction for the more than 100,000 who have been rendered homeless as well as for infrastructure and industry will be impossible.
The death of Ismail Abu Ibteihan brought Friday's death toll to seven, a day after Israeli airstrikes killed 38 across the besieged coastal enclave.
Ahmad Qassim al-Abadlah, 69, died of wounds he sustained on Friday morning in a strike on al-Qarara in Khan Younis.
More than 65 Palestinians have been killed since Israel relaunched its assault on Gaza late Tuesday after a temporary ceasefire fell apart, bringing the total death toll in the six-week assault to more than 2,090.
Negotiations for a long-term truce, meanwhile, have so fair failed to achieve any result, as Israel has refused Palestinian demands that any truce be linked to end to the eight-year siege that has crippled Gaza's economy and reduced 1.8 million people to aid dependency.
Palestinians fear that without an end to the siege, reconstruction for the more than 100,000 who have been rendered homeless as well as for infrastructure and industry will be impossible.
A four-year-old Israeli child was killed after mortar fire struck two
cars in Sdot Negev region of southern Israel on Friday afternoon.
The Israeli military told Ma'an that the child was killed amid a barrage of rockets from Gaza, which also hit a number of cities across southern and central Israel.
Israeli sources said that two cars caught fire and burned as a result of the shell.
An Israeli military spokeswoman told Ma'an that the child was killed in Nahal Oz in Shaar HaNegev, but a later military statement said that the child died in neighboring Sdot Negev.
At least four were injured as approximately 80 rockets fell across Israel from Gaza on Friday, a day after 100 rockets were launched.
The Israeli military said on Friday that two Israelis were injured when rockets fell on Beersheba and Sderot earlier in the day, while two other Israelis were injured when another rocket hit a synagogue in Ashdod.
The Israeli military said 430 rockets have been fired from Gaza since a temporary ceasefire collapsed on Tuesday.
In the same time, the Israeli military has killed more than 60 Palestinians across Gaza in widespread airstrikes that have left hundreds more injured.
Israel has killed more than 2,090 Gazans, mostly civilians, since it launched a massive assault on the besieged coastal enclave in July, which also left 10,500 injured and 100,000 homeless.
68 Israelis have been killed in the same period, all but four of whom were soldiers killed during the ground invasion.
4-year-old Israeli child killed by mortar fire in Nahal Oz
The Israeli military told Ma'an that the child was killed amid a barrage of rockets from Gaza, which also hit a number of cities across southern and central Israel.
Israeli sources said that two cars caught fire and burned as a result of the shell.
An Israeli military spokeswoman told Ma'an that the child was killed in Nahal Oz in Shaar HaNegev, but a later military statement said that the child died in neighboring Sdot Negev.
At least four were injured as approximately 80 rockets fell across Israel from Gaza on Friday, a day after 100 rockets were launched.
The Israeli military said on Friday that two Israelis were injured when rockets fell on Beersheba and Sderot earlier in the day, while two other Israelis were injured when another rocket hit a synagogue in Ashdod.
The Israeli military said 430 rockets have been fired from Gaza since a temporary ceasefire collapsed on Tuesday.
In the same time, the Israeli military has killed more than 60 Palestinians across Gaza in widespread airstrikes that have left hundreds more injured.
Israel has killed more than 2,090 Gazans, mostly civilians, since it launched a massive assault on the besieged coastal enclave in July, which also left 10,500 injured and 100,000 homeless.
68 Israelis have been killed in the same period, all but four of whom were soldiers killed during the ground invasion.
4-year-old Israeli child killed by mortar fire in Nahal Oz
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday said that the Palestinians would not accept anything less than an end to Israel's blockade of Gaza, as Israeli forces continued to attack the besieged enclave.
Haniyeh accused Israel of using negotiations as a cover for their crimes and said it must accept the "fair demands" made by the Palestinian delegation, adding that Hamas would not accept anything less than an end to Israel's assault and the seven-year blockade.
Palestinians have demanded in indirect negotiations in Cairo that Israel end its eight-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has crippled the tiny coastal enclave's economy and led to widespread suffering, as well as re-open an airport and seaport, among other demands.
Haniyeh urged Egypt to hold Israel responsible for crimes committed against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, adding that Israel is responsible for the collapse of the indirect ceasefire talks in Cairo.
Haniyeh also paid condolences to the three Hamas military commanders killed by Israel on Thursday, adding: "History proves that Hamas only becomes stronger and tougher than Israel expects when they kill our leaders."
Senior Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said Friday that a return to indirect ceasefire negotiations is conditional on Israel accepting Palestinians demands.
He said that Israel should accept what was discussed in indirect talks or prepare for a "long war."
Israel has not responded to Palestinian truce offers, but has instead insisted that Palestinian militant groups in Gaza disarm.
Palestinian groups have refused this demand, pointing out that it was Palestinian military strength that repelled the Israeli assault and invasion that has so far left 2,090 Palestinians dead, more than 10,500 injured, and at least 100,000 homeless.
Haniyeh accused Israel of using negotiations as a cover for their crimes and said it must accept the "fair demands" made by the Palestinian delegation, adding that Hamas would not accept anything less than an end to Israel's assault and the seven-year blockade.
Palestinians have demanded in indirect negotiations in Cairo that Israel end its eight-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has crippled the tiny coastal enclave's economy and led to widespread suffering, as well as re-open an airport and seaport, among other demands.
Haniyeh urged Egypt to hold Israel responsible for crimes committed against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, adding that Israel is responsible for the collapse of the indirect ceasefire talks in Cairo.
Haniyeh also paid condolences to the three Hamas military commanders killed by Israel on Thursday, adding: "History proves that Hamas only becomes stronger and tougher than Israel expects when they kill our leaders."
Senior Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said Friday that a return to indirect ceasefire negotiations is conditional on Israel accepting Palestinians demands.
He said that Israel should accept what was discussed in indirect talks or prepare for a "long war."
Israel has not responded to Palestinian truce offers, but has instead insisted that Palestinian militant groups in Gaza disarm.
Palestinian groups have refused this demand, pointing out that it was Palestinian military strength that repelled the Israeli assault and invasion that has so far left 2,090 Palestinians dead, more than 10,500 injured, and at least 100,000 homeless.
A Palestinian media watchdog on Thursday said that July was the bloodiest month on record in the history of the Palestinian press, as nine journalists were killed and eight media outlets shelled during the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza.
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms said in a statement that the targeting of Palestinian media had continued into August, with at least six more journalists killed in the last three weeks as well.
General director of MADA Mousa Rimawi said in the statement that the attacks on journalists were widespread and focused in Gaza, where the homes of 16 journalists were also destroyed and transmission to a number of different TV, radio, and media websites was cut by the Israeli military.
"MADA believes that they would not have died if (Israeli forces) had been hold accountable for its previous crimes against journalists, which are considered war crimes according to the Geneva Conventions which protect all civilians in case of war." The report said that seven journalists were killed in Israeli assaults on Gaza in 2009 and 2012, and "so far nobody has been held accountable."
The statement said that in July, Israeli occupation forces had committed 73 violations of media freedom throughout the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, while three were committed by Palestinian parties in the West Bank.
The report stressed that the the 15 journalists killed in the last six weeks "were killed in civilian sites which are supposed to be safe for civilians, including news workers."
The report also said that while some were killed in their homes or while covering the aftermath of Israeli operations in residential neighborhoods, others were "deliberately targeted."
"PalMedia Company driver Hamid Adballah Shihab was killed while he was driving a PalMedia's car carrying a 'Press' sign, journalist Hamadah Khaled Maqat was killed by a rocket while he was walking, and Palestine Public TV sport commentator Ahed Zaqout was killed during the shelling of his house," the report said.
The report also counted at least 12 journalists that had been injured during the Israeli assault on Gaza.
"The circumstances of the Israeli crimes and attacks against journalists and media outlets during the Gaza assault indicate that some were deliberately committed to silent them," the report said, noting that "Israel did not hide the fact that it deliberately shelled the media outlets it accuses of being Hamas propaganda mouthpiece, such as Al-Aqsa TV and satellite channel."
Of the eight media outlets that MADA said were destroyed, it said five were targeted deliberately, including three headquarters of Al-Aqsa, the office of Alwataniya Agency for Media, and the Al-Jazeera TV premises, which the report noted was hit a day after Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened to close it.
71 percent increase in violations in West Bank
The report also noted that the Israeli military disrupted the broadcasting of seven radio and TV stations and websites, and used the stations to "broadcast inciting messages against the Palestinian resistance."
The report said that the crackdown was not limited to Gaza but extended into the West Bank, where they recorded a 71 percent increase in violations of media freedom, including "arrests, physical abuses, shooting of live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas grenades, prevention from coverage, expulsion and detention, and confiscation and damage of equipment."
MADA counted five journalists arrested across the West Bank as well as one whose home was raided and searched before being handed a summons for interrogation regarding his work.
The report also said 17 journalists were injured in the West Bank, the vast majority by rubber-coated steel bullets fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes.
It noted that two Palestinian journalists were also injured inside Israel when they were attacked by groups of Jewish Israelis near Sderot in southern Israel as they were covering the assault on Gaza from a hill there.
The report also said that Palestinian authorities had carried out three violations of media freedom, including preventing journalists from covering a story in Jenin as well as summons for interrogations for two other journalists based on Facebook posts.
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms said in a statement that the targeting of Palestinian media had continued into August, with at least six more journalists killed in the last three weeks as well.
General director of MADA Mousa Rimawi said in the statement that the attacks on journalists were widespread and focused in Gaza, where the homes of 16 journalists were also destroyed and transmission to a number of different TV, radio, and media websites was cut by the Israeli military.
"MADA believes that they would not have died if (Israeli forces) had been hold accountable for its previous crimes against journalists, which are considered war crimes according to the Geneva Conventions which protect all civilians in case of war." The report said that seven journalists were killed in Israeli assaults on Gaza in 2009 and 2012, and "so far nobody has been held accountable."
The statement said that in July, Israeli occupation forces had committed 73 violations of media freedom throughout the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, while three were committed by Palestinian parties in the West Bank.
The report stressed that the the 15 journalists killed in the last six weeks "were killed in civilian sites which are supposed to be safe for civilians, including news workers."
The report also said that while some were killed in their homes or while covering the aftermath of Israeli operations in residential neighborhoods, others were "deliberately targeted."
"PalMedia Company driver Hamid Adballah Shihab was killed while he was driving a PalMedia's car carrying a 'Press' sign, journalist Hamadah Khaled Maqat was killed by a rocket while he was walking, and Palestine Public TV sport commentator Ahed Zaqout was killed during the shelling of his house," the report said.
The report also counted at least 12 journalists that had been injured during the Israeli assault on Gaza.
"The circumstances of the Israeli crimes and attacks against journalists and media outlets during the Gaza assault indicate that some were deliberately committed to silent them," the report said, noting that "Israel did not hide the fact that it deliberately shelled the media outlets it accuses of being Hamas propaganda mouthpiece, such as Al-Aqsa TV and satellite channel."
Of the eight media outlets that MADA said were destroyed, it said five were targeted deliberately, including three headquarters of Al-Aqsa, the office of Alwataniya Agency for Media, and the Al-Jazeera TV premises, which the report noted was hit a day after Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened to close it.
71 percent increase in violations in West Bank
The report also noted that the Israeli military disrupted the broadcasting of seven radio and TV stations and websites, and used the stations to "broadcast inciting messages against the Palestinian resistance."
The report said that the crackdown was not limited to Gaza but extended into the West Bank, where they recorded a 71 percent increase in violations of media freedom, including "arrests, physical abuses, shooting of live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas grenades, prevention from coverage, expulsion and detention, and confiscation and damage of equipment."
MADA counted five journalists arrested across the West Bank as well as one whose home was raided and searched before being handed a summons for interrogation regarding his work.
The report also said 17 journalists were injured in the West Bank, the vast majority by rubber-coated steel bullets fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes.
It noted that two Palestinian journalists were also injured inside Israel when they were attacked by groups of Jewish Israelis near Sderot in southern Israel as they were covering the assault on Gaza from a hill there.
The report also said that Palestinian authorities had carried out three violations of media freedom, including preventing journalists from covering a story in Jenin as well as summons for interrogations for two other journalists based on Facebook posts.
Airstrikes killed five Palestinians in Gaza early Friday as Israel's military assault on the besieged enclave continued.
Yassin Hamed Abu Hamda and Mahmoud Qashlan were killed by strikes in al-Nuseirat refugee camp while Mahmoud Talaat Shreiteh, 14, and Bashir Ahmad Shreiteh, 35, were killed in central Gaza.
Moussa Ahmad al-Abadla, 23, was killed and two others injured when Israel targeted the al-Qarara neighborhood in Khan Younis.
Israel's air-force targeted an apartment in the al-Sheikh Zayed towers in Jabalia, storehouses in Rafah, a concrete producing workshop in central Gaza and a poultry farm.
The al-Astal and Shbir family homes were hit by missiles, with no injuries reported.
At least 38 Palestinians were killed on Thursday, including three senior Hamas military commanders who were targeted in Rafah.
Over 2,087 Palestinians have been killed and 10,500 injured in Israel's military offensive.
Yassin Hamed Abu Hamda and Mahmoud Qashlan were killed by strikes in al-Nuseirat refugee camp while Mahmoud Talaat Shreiteh, 14, and Bashir Ahmad Shreiteh, 35, were killed in central Gaza.
Moussa Ahmad al-Abadla, 23, was killed and two others injured when Israel targeted the al-Qarara neighborhood in Khan Younis.
Israel's air-force targeted an apartment in the al-Sheikh Zayed towers in Jabalia, storehouses in Rafah, a concrete producing workshop in central Gaza and a poultry farm.
The al-Astal and Shbir family homes were hit by missiles, with no injuries reported.
At least 38 Palestinians were killed on Thursday, including three senior Hamas military commanders who were targeted in Rafah.
Over 2,087 Palestinians have been killed and 10,500 injured in Israel's military offensive.
Smoke trails mark the path of Palestinian missiles fired from the north-east of Gaza City on August 21, 2014
Britain, France and Germany have launched a fresh bid at the UN to end six weeks of violence in Gaza, after Israeli warplanes killed three top Hamas commanders, inflicting a heavy blow on the movement's armed wing.
The European initiative on Thursday came as fighting flared on the ground and an Egyptian-led effort to broker peace talks teetered on the verge of collapse.
In a document obtained by AFP, the three countries urged an immediate and sustainable ceasefire that would put an end to the firing of rockets and military operations in the Gaza Strip.
It calls for a lifting of the Israeli blockade and a monitoring mechanism to report on ceasefire violations and verify the flow of goods into the Gaza Strip.
Diplomats said the text was aimed at advancing efforts to reach agreement within the 15-member UN Security Council on a resolution after Jordan's draft text met with resistance, notably from the United States.
The so-called "elements" document lays out the parameters for a ceasefire deal that would address Israel's security concerns and meet Palestinian demands.
It asks UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to immediately come up with proposals to "implement the relevant provisions" in a move that could jump-start peace negotiations.
Bid to shore up Egypt's mediation
UN diplomats said they hoped the initiative would shore up the Egyptian-led peace track and lead to a lasting ceasefire that would avoid a relapse into war.
More than 2,083 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict that began on July 8, most of them civilians, according to UN officials.
The European-drafted document calls for the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza, which has been under Hamas control for the past seven years.
It provides for the lifting of economic and humanitarian restrictions on the Gaza Strip to allow for a massive reconstruction effort, and for the re-opening of border crossings.
An international monitoring and verification mission would be established with a mandate to report on ceasefire violations and check the flow of goods into Gaza -- a key point missing from the Jordanian draft resolution.
Ban has pledged international help to rebuild Gaza but warned that this would be "for the last time" after three wars in six years.
As the six-week war between Israel and Hamas raged on leaving truce talks in tatters, a pre-dawn air strike Thursday killed three members of the movement's armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades.
"The assassination... is a big Israeli crime, which will not succeed in breaking our will or weakening our resistance," spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said.
Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency said Muhammad Abu Shammala and Raed al-Attar were among the top five most-wanted Hamas militants.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon hailed their deaths as "a big operational and intelligence achievement", and warned that Israel would not hesitate to track down the rest of the group's leaders.
Witnesses said nine missiles blasted the four-story building in Rafah to smithereens, leaving a huge crater.
Four surrounding buildings had their doors and windows blown out and some outer walls destroyed.
The body of Sabah Yunis, a four-year-old girl, was also pulled from the rubble, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said.
Abbas meets Mashaal
The deadly strikes came 36 hours after Israel tried and failed to assassinate Brigades chief Mohammed Deif, who has topped its most wanted list for more than a decade.
That attack leveled a six-story building in Gaza City, killing two women and three children, among them Deif's wife, his infant son and three-year-old daughter, although he escaped unharmed.
The UN has identified about 70 percent of them as civilians.
On the Israeli side, 67 people have been killed, 64 of them soldiers.
UN aid workers stepped up calls for an urgent ceasefire, warning that spiralling violence endangered their ability to respond to the needs of Gaza's 1.8 million people.
Despite the collapse of the negotiations, President Mahmoud Abbas held talks in Qatar with exiled Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, official Palestinian and Gulf news agencies said.
Also present were Azzam al-Ahmad, who led the Palestinian delegation at truce talks in Cairo, senior negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian intelligence chief Majid Faraj.
Arms embargo?
Israeli confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steadily declined during the war, but his 53 percent approval rating is still higher than before the conflict, according to a survey for the private Channel 2 television.
British aid charity Oxfam, meanwhile, urged the international community to "immediately suspend transfers of arms or ammunition while there is serious risk that they could be used to violate international humanitarian law".
It said the widespread killing of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure during the Israeli operation was the worst it had witnessed in 20 years of working in Gaza.
Britain, France and Germany have launched a fresh bid at the UN to end six weeks of violence in Gaza, after Israeli warplanes killed three top Hamas commanders, inflicting a heavy blow on the movement's armed wing.
The European initiative on Thursday came as fighting flared on the ground and an Egyptian-led effort to broker peace talks teetered on the verge of collapse.
In a document obtained by AFP, the three countries urged an immediate and sustainable ceasefire that would put an end to the firing of rockets and military operations in the Gaza Strip.
It calls for a lifting of the Israeli blockade and a monitoring mechanism to report on ceasefire violations and verify the flow of goods into the Gaza Strip.
Diplomats said the text was aimed at advancing efforts to reach agreement within the 15-member UN Security Council on a resolution after Jordan's draft text met with resistance, notably from the United States.
The so-called "elements" document lays out the parameters for a ceasefire deal that would address Israel's security concerns and meet Palestinian demands.
It asks UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to immediately come up with proposals to "implement the relevant provisions" in a move that could jump-start peace negotiations.
Bid to shore up Egypt's mediation
UN diplomats said they hoped the initiative would shore up the Egyptian-led peace track and lead to a lasting ceasefire that would avoid a relapse into war.
More than 2,083 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict that began on July 8, most of them civilians, according to UN officials.
The European-drafted document calls for the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza, which has been under Hamas control for the past seven years.
It provides for the lifting of economic and humanitarian restrictions on the Gaza Strip to allow for a massive reconstruction effort, and for the re-opening of border crossings.
An international monitoring and verification mission would be established with a mandate to report on ceasefire violations and check the flow of goods into Gaza -- a key point missing from the Jordanian draft resolution.
Ban has pledged international help to rebuild Gaza but warned that this would be "for the last time" after three wars in six years.
As the six-week war between Israel and Hamas raged on leaving truce talks in tatters, a pre-dawn air strike Thursday killed three members of the movement's armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades.
"The assassination... is a big Israeli crime, which will not succeed in breaking our will or weakening our resistance," spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said.
Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency said Muhammad Abu Shammala and Raed al-Attar were among the top five most-wanted Hamas militants.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon hailed their deaths as "a big operational and intelligence achievement", and warned that Israel would not hesitate to track down the rest of the group's leaders.
Witnesses said nine missiles blasted the four-story building in Rafah to smithereens, leaving a huge crater.
Four surrounding buildings had their doors and windows blown out and some outer walls destroyed.
The body of Sabah Yunis, a four-year-old girl, was also pulled from the rubble, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said.
Abbas meets Mashaal
The deadly strikes came 36 hours after Israel tried and failed to assassinate Brigades chief Mohammed Deif, who has topped its most wanted list for more than a decade.
That attack leveled a six-story building in Gaza City, killing two women and three children, among them Deif's wife, his infant son and three-year-old daughter, although he escaped unharmed.
The UN has identified about 70 percent of them as civilians.
On the Israeli side, 67 people have been killed, 64 of them soldiers.
UN aid workers stepped up calls for an urgent ceasefire, warning that spiralling violence endangered their ability to respond to the needs of Gaza's 1.8 million people.
Despite the collapse of the negotiations, President Mahmoud Abbas held talks in Qatar with exiled Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, official Palestinian and Gulf news agencies said.
Also present were Azzam al-Ahmad, who led the Palestinian delegation at truce talks in Cairo, senior negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian intelligence chief Majid Faraj.
Arms embargo?
Israeli confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steadily declined during the war, but his 53 percent approval rating is still higher than before the conflict, according to a survey for the private Channel 2 television.
British aid charity Oxfam, meanwhile, urged the international community to "immediately suspend transfers of arms or ammunition while there is serious risk that they could be used to violate international humanitarian law".
It said the widespread killing of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure during the Israeli operation was the worst it had witnessed in 20 years of working in Gaza.
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip has reported that two Palestinians were killed, and many injured, as the Israeli army continued to target densely populated civilian areas in the Gaza Strip.
The sources stated the two residents were killed in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, while many suffered mild-to-moderate injuries, and at least one Palestinian suffered a serious injury.
The attack took place near Ein Jalout Towers, in the camp.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as Mahmoud Nasser Qashlan, 24, and Yassin Hamed Abu Hamad, 22. Their remains, and the wounded residents, were moved to the al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in Central Gaza.
The soldiers also fired several missiles into the areas including missiles fired into a farm and several structures.
In addition, soldiers fired several artillery shells into a number of homes in Nusseirat, causing excessive property damage and several injuries.
An Israeli drone also fired a missile into a home belonging to the family of a reporter, in Sheikh Zayed residential towers, in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
The missiles struck apartment number 301 of residential tower number 38. The soldiers also fired missile into the rooftop, targeting water containers.
Sheikh Zayed residential towers are among many towers and residential apartment buildings targeted by the army.
Medical sources said the family in apartment 301 narrowly escaped death as an Israeli missile struck the balcony of their home causing significant property damage.
An Israeli war jet also fired a missile at a home belonging to a Palestinian family in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip causing property damage but no injuries.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said 34 Palestinians were killed, and that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles and shells since July 8 is 2083, including 561 children, 255 women, and 98 elderly.
It added that 10482 Palestinians, including 3189 children, 1994 women and 388 elderly have been injuries, hundreds of them suffered serious injuries.
“Israel also committed massacres against 86 families since July 8”, the Ministry stated, “505 Palestinians, including infants, children, women and elderly, have been injured”.
The sources stated the two residents were killed in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, while many suffered mild-to-moderate injuries, and at least one Palestinian suffered a serious injury.
The attack took place near Ein Jalout Towers, in the camp.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as Mahmoud Nasser Qashlan, 24, and Yassin Hamed Abu Hamad, 22. Their remains, and the wounded residents, were moved to the al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in Central Gaza.
The soldiers also fired several missiles into the areas including missiles fired into a farm and several structures.
In addition, soldiers fired several artillery shells into a number of homes in Nusseirat, causing excessive property damage and several injuries.
An Israeli drone also fired a missile into a home belonging to the family of a reporter, in Sheikh Zayed residential towers, in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
The missiles struck apartment number 301 of residential tower number 38. The soldiers also fired missile into the rooftop, targeting water containers.
Sheikh Zayed residential towers are among many towers and residential apartment buildings targeted by the army.
Medical sources said the family in apartment 301 narrowly escaped death as an Israeli missile struck the balcony of their home causing significant property damage.
An Israeli war jet also fired a missile at a home belonging to a Palestinian family in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip causing property damage but no injuries.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said 34 Palestinians were killed, and that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles and shells since July 8 is 2083, including 561 children, 255 women, and 98 elderly.
It added that 10482 Palestinians, including 3189 children, 1994 women and 388 elderly have been injuries, hundreds of them suffered serious injuries.
“Israel also committed massacres against 86 families since July 8”, the Ministry stated, “505 Palestinians, including infants, children, women and elderly, have been injured”.
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip has reported that a Palestinian father and his child have been killed, while many Palestinians have been wounded, as the Israeli army continues to bombard civilian areas of the besieged, and impoverished coastal region.
The sources said the Israeli Air Force fired missiles into a home belonging to Shreiteh family, in the al-Masha’ra area, east of Deir al-Balah in Central Gaza, killing a father and his son, and wounding several others.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as Bashir Shreitih, 35, and his child Mahmoud, 14 years of age.
Another home was also destroyed in the city after the army fired a missile into it, no injuries were reported.
The remains of the slain father and his son, along with four wounded Palestinians, have been moved to the al-Aqsa Hospital in the city.
Three more Palestinians were injured when the army fired missiles into the Sheikh Radwan graveyard, in Gaza City. Several graves were unearthed, property damage was reported in nearby buildings, the southern wall of the graveyard, and the main power transformer in the area.
In addition, the army fired artillery shells into agricultural land east of the Shuja’eyya neighborhood, east of the Gaza Strip.
The army further carried out three strikes near targeting buildings near the Rafah City Council, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Another home, and a farmland, have also targeted in Nusseirat area in Gaza, causing fires and serious property damage but no injuries.
The army also fired a missile near a local mosque in the al-Buriej refugee camp, in Central Gaza.
The sources said the Israeli Air Force fired missiles into a home belonging to Shreiteh family, in the al-Masha’ra area, east of Deir al-Balah in Central Gaza, killing a father and his son, and wounding several others.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as Bashir Shreitih, 35, and his child Mahmoud, 14 years of age.
Another home was also destroyed in the city after the army fired a missile into it, no injuries were reported.
The remains of the slain father and his son, along with four wounded Palestinians, have been moved to the al-Aqsa Hospital in the city.
Three more Palestinians were injured when the army fired missiles into the Sheikh Radwan graveyard, in Gaza City. Several graves were unearthed, property damage was reported in nearby buildings, the southern wall of the graveyard, and the main power transformer in the area.
In addition, the army fired artillery shells into agricultural land east of the Shuja’eyya neighborhood, east of the Gaza Strip.
The army further carried out three strikes near targeting buildings near the Rafah City Council, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Another home, and a farmland, have also targeted in Nusseirat area in Gaza, causing fires and serious property damage but no injuries.
The army also fired a missile near a local mosque in the al-Buriej refugee camp, in Central Gaza.
Essam Younis, the director of the Al Mizan Center for Human Rights
Lawyer Essam Younis, director of the Al Mizan Center for Human Rights in Gaza, says that bombing civilians living in a highly residential area without any warning is a massive crime. Younis' parents were recently killed after Israeli warplanes bombed several houses in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
"No silence any more," declared Essam, according to Al Ray.
"The world is still silent toward those crimes, so Palestinians should continue their human rights struggle, and hurry the signing of Rome statute and joining the international courts, to hold the occupation accountable."
He explained that the Palestinian demands are legitimate, lawful and guaranteed by the international law saying: "Palestinians did not demand but lifting the siege."
At least, seven Palestinians were killed and 25 injured following another civilian assault by Israeli warplanes which bombed five houses with incredibly destructive missiles in Rafah.
Palestinians have been demanding an end to the Israeli blockade, the release of re-arrested prisoners, the reconstruction of Gaza, the building of a sea and air port, the removal of the buffer zone, and the widening of the fishing zone.
These demands are legitimate by the Oslo Accords, which were signed by Israel but never fully honored, especially following a 2006 election victory by the Hamas party, which the regime continues to brand as a terrorist organization.
OVer 2,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 10,000 others injured since Israeli military attacks on Gaza began again in early July.
See also: PCHR Calls Upon Palestine to Immediately Accede to the Rome Statute
Lawyer Essam Younis, director of the Al Mizan Center for Human Rights in Gaza, says that bombing civilians living in a highly residential area without any warning is a massive crime. Younis' parents were recently killed after Israeli warplanes bombed several houses in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
"No silence any more," declared Essam, according to Al Ray.
"The world is still silent toward those crimes, so Palestinians should continue their human rights struggle, and hurry the signing of Rome statute and joining the international courts, to hold the occupation accountable."
He explained that the Palestinian demands are legitimate, lawful and guaranteed by the international law saying: "Palestinians did not demand but lifting the siege."
At least, seven Palestinians were killed and 25 injured following another civilian assault by Israeli warplanes which bombed five houses with incredibly destructive missiles in Rafah.
Palestinians have been demanding an end to the Israeli blockade, the release of re-arrested prisoners, the reconstruction of Gaza, the building of a sea and air port, the removal of the buffer zone, and the widening of the fishing zone.
These demands are legitimate by the Oslo Accords, which were signed by Israel but never fully honored, especially following a 2006 election victory by the Hamas party, which the regime continues to brand as a terrorist organization.
OVer 2,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 10,000 others injured since Israeli military attacks on Gaza began again in early July.
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