9 - 10 mar 2012
15 killed and 25 injured in Gaza from Israeli attacks
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In the past 24 hours, across Gaza, Israeli airstrikes killed 14 Palestinians, and injured 25 others.
The latest deaths came as Israeli drones fired missiles in Khan Younis killing Mansour Abu Nusaira and Hussein Hamad. Israeli troops have opened fire at the funeral procession of some of those killed last night. The angry mourners threw stones at the Israeli forces positioned east of Gaza near the Martyrs cemetery Last night Israeli warplanes hit the Palestinian legislative council, and 3 people were killed in this attack… 14 people have been killed and over 20 injured so far in a series of air strikes. Many sites and places have been targeted throughout the Gaza strip. |
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An Israeli strike targeting a car in western Gaza killed the head of the Popular Resistance Committees and a former prisoner released by Israel four years ago, medical officials said Friday.
PRC secretary-general Zuhair Qaisi and Mahmoud Hanani, a Nablus native freed from Israeli custody four years earler, were killed in the blast in Deir al-Hawa, a Gaza health ministry official said.
Adham Abu Salmiya said one other person sustained injuries in the explosion.
An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return a call for comment.
"The car was bombed," one source told Reuters. The explosion happened shortly after Israel said two rockets were fired the Eshkol area, causing no damage or injury.
Four killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza
At least four Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources say.
According to Palestinian sources, in the first attack missiles fired from an Israeli drone struck a car in Tel El-Hawa neighborhood, west of Gaza City, on Friday, killing both its passengers and severely injuring another person.
The Israeli army has confirmed the attack, saying it was a targeted assassination.
An Israeli military spokesman said that Zuheir al-Qessi, the head of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and fellow-member Mahmud Hanani were killed in the attack, adding that Israeli officials ordered the assassination because they had allegedly received reports that al-Qessi was planning attacks against Israeli targets.
Hanini had been freed from an Israeli jail last year as part of a prisoner swap deal to gain the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
There were no information on the second attack, local medical sources only said that two more Palestinians were killed in another Israeli airstrike without providing further detail.
The Israeli military, however, claimed that the two men were about to fire rockets into Israel.
Israeli war planes and ground forces frequently attack Gaza since the end of the 22-day war on the territory in 2009. Most victims of the attacks are civilians including women and children.
Gaza has been under Israel's all out siege since 2007, when democratically-elected Hamas took control of the tiny Palestinian territory.
Death toll rises to 12 as Israel bombards Gaza
Israeli warplanes continued to strike several targets across the Gaza Strip overnight and early Saturday morning for the second day bringing the death toll to 12, and injuries to 20.
Islamic Jihad’s military wing the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement that 10 of their fighters were killed since Friday. It said the group launched 41 Grad missiles, 20 homemade projectiles, six mortar shells, and three 107-mm rockets at Israeli targets.
A Ma'an reporter identified the 12 dead as Muhammad al-Ghamry, Fayiq Saad, Muatasim Hajjaj, Ubeid Gharabli, Muhammad Hararah, Hazim Qureiqi, Shadi Sayqali, Zuheir al-Qaysi, Mahmoud Hanani, Muhammad Maghari, Mahmoud Najim, and Ahmad Hajjaj.
Medical sources, meanwhile, said 26-year-old Muhammad al-Ghamry succumbed to wounds he sustained Saturday morning as Israeli warplanes targeted a car on Salah Ad-Din Street off the coast in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
They said Islamic Jihad operatives Ahmad Hajjaj, Fayiq Saad, and Muatasim Hajjaj were targeted by fighter jets early Saturday as they were walking near the building of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the Shujaiyyah neighborhood in Gaza City. Fayiq Saad and Muatasim Hajjaj were killed immediately, while Ahmad Hajjaj sustained mortal wounds and was pronounced dead shortly after he was evacuated.
In Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, an Israeli airstrike killed Muhammad Maghari and Mahmoud Najim on Hutayba street early Saturday.
Another Israeli raid injured four Palestinians from the same family as a rocket hit a basement on Yarmouk Street in Gaza City, according to medical sources.
Warplanes also targeted a military base used by Hamas’ military wing the al-Qassam Brigades in western Gaza City. The base was hit twice. No injuries have been reported, however, the attack resulted in power cuts in several neighborhoods.
Another airstrike hit a security base west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israel's military says over 45 rockets have struck sites in the south, injuring four people, one severely, one moderately and two lightly.
It's "Iron Dome" missile defense system has intercepted over 10 Grad rockets which the army says which were fired at the cities of Beer Sheva, Ashdod and Ashkelon.
Israel said its aircraft targeted two weapon manufacturing facilities and two rocket launching sites in northern Gaza, a weapon manufacturing facility in central Gaza and a "terror activity site" in southern Gaza.
Aircraft targeted a fighter in central Gaza and six additional squads who were in the final stages of preparing to fire rockets at Israel from separate locations in northern and central Gaza, the army said. Gaza buries 12 men Fa'eq Sameer Sa'ad 28
Crowds in Gaza City joined the funeral processions of seven Islamic Jihad fighters who were killed by Israeli forces Friday and Saturday morning. Funeral of:
1- Muatasim Hajjaj,
2- Ahmad Hajjaj
3- Fayiq Saad
4- Shadi Sayqali
5- Hazim Qureiqi,
6- Ubeid Gharably and
7- Muhammad Hararah, set out from Shifa hospital in Gaza City, then to Al-Umari Mosque.
After prayers, the bodies were carried to their families for a final farewell. However, families will have to look at covered bodies because most victims were torn to pieces.
Mourners chanted slogans calling on resistance fighters to retaliate, while gunshots were fired into the air.
The Popular Resistance Committees announced that the funeral of the group’s secretary-general
8- sheikh Zuheir Qaisi would set out from Al-Awda Mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile
9- Mahmoud Hanani originally from Nablus, will be buried after midday prayer. The funeral will set out from the Shura Mosque in Tal al-Zaatar neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip.
Funerals for
10- Mahmoud Najim and
11- Muhammad Al-Maghari will be held in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.
12- Muhammad Al-Ghamry will be buried in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
An Israeli strike targeting a car in western Gaza killed the head of the Popular Resistance Committees and a former prisoner released by Israel four years ago, medical officials said Friday.
PRC secretary-general Zuhair Qaisi and Mahmoud Hanani, a Nablus native freed from Israeli custody four years earler, were killed in the blast in Deir al-Hawa, a Gaza health ministry official said.
Adham Abu Salmiya said one other person sustained injuries in the explosion.
An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return a call for comment.
"The car was bombed," one source told Reuters. The explosion happened shortly after Israel said two rockets were fired the Eshkol area, causing no damage or injury.
Four killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza
At least four Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources say.
According to Palestinian sources, in the first attack missiles fired from an Israeli drone struck a car in Tel El-Hawa neighborhood, west of Gaza City, on Friday, killing both its passengers and severely injuring another person.
The Israeli army has confirmed the attack, saying it was a targeted assassination.
An Israeli military spokesman said that Zuheir al-Qessi, the head of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and fellow-member Mahmud Hanani were killed in the attack, adding that Israeli officials ordered the assassination because they had allegedly received reports that al-Qessi was planning attacks against Israeli targets.
Hanini had been freed from an Israeli jail last year as part of a prisoner swap deal to gain the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
There were no information on the second attack, local medical sources only said that two more Palestinians were killed in another Israeli airstrike without providing further detail.
The Israeli military, however, claimed that the two men were about to fire rockets into Israel.
Israeli war planes and ground forces frequently attack Gaza since the end of the 22-day war on the territory in 2009. Most victims of the attacks are civilians including women and children.
Gaza has been under Israel's all out siege since 2007, when democratically-elected Hamas took control of the tiny Palestinian territory.
Death toll rises to 12 as Israel bombards Gaza
Israeli warplanes continued to strike several targets across the Gaza Strip overnight and early Saturday morning for the second day bringing the death toll to 12, and injuries to 20.
Islamic Jihad’s military wing the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement that 10 of their fighters were killed since Friday. It said the group launched 41 Grad missiles, 20 homemade projectiles, six mortar shells, and three 107-mm rockets at Israeli targets.
A Ma'an reporter identified the 12 dead as Muhammad al-Ghamry, Fayiq Saad, Muatasim Hajjaj, Ubeid Gharabli, Muhammad Hararah, Hazim Qureiqi, Shadi Sayqali, Zuheir al-Qaysi, Mahmoud Hanani, Muhammad Maghari, Mahmoud Najim, and Ahmad Hajjaj.
Medical sources, meanwhile, said 26-year-old Muhammad al-Ghamry succumbed to wounds he sustained Saturday morning as Israeli warplanes targeted a car on Salah Ad-Din Street off the coast in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
They said Islamic Jihad operatives Ahmad Hajjaj, Fayiq Saad, and Muatasim Hajjaj were targeted by fighter jets early Saturday as they were walking near the building of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the Shujaiyyah neighborhood in Gaza City. Fayiq Saad and Muatasim Hajjaj were killed immediately, while Ahmad Hajjaj sustained mortal wounds and was pronounced dead shortly after he was evacuated.
In Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, an Israeli airstrike killed Muhammad Maghari and Mahmoud Najim on Hutayba street early Saturday.
Another Israeli raid injured four Palestinians from the same family as a rocket hit a basement on Yarmouk Street in Gaza City, according to medical sources.
Warplanes also targeted a military base used by Hamas’ military wing the al-Qassam Brigades in western Gaza City. The base was hit twice. No injuries have been reported, however, the attack resulted in power cuts in several neighborhoods.
Another airstrike hit a security base west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israel's military says over 45 rockets have struck sites in the south, injuring four people, one severely, one moderately and two lightly.
It's "Iron Dome" missile defense system has intercepted over 10 Grad rockets which the army says which were fired at the cities of Beer Sheva, Ashdod and Ashkelon.
Israel said its aircraft targeted two weapon manufacturing facilities and two rocket launching sites in northern Gaza, a weapon manufacturing facility in central Gaza and a "terror activity site" in southern Gaza.
Aircraft targeted a fighter in central Gaza and six additional squads who were in the final stages of preparing to fire rockets at Israel from separate locations in northern and central Gaza, the army said. Gaza buries 12 men Fa'eq Sameer Sa'ad 28
Crowds in Gaza City joined the funeral processions of seven Islamic Jihad fighters who were killed by Israeli forces Friday and Saturday morning. Funeral of:
1- Muatasim Hajjaj,
2- Ahmad Hajjaj
3- Fayiq Saad
4- Shadi Sayqali
5- Hazim Qureiqi,
6- Ubeid Gharably and
7- Muhammad Hararah, set out from Shifa hospital in Gaza City, then to Al-Umari Mosque.
After prayers, the bodies were carried to their families for a final farewell. However, families will have to look at covered bodies because most victims were torn to pieces.
Mourners chanted slogans calling on resistance fighters to retaliate, while gunshots were fired into the air.
The Popular Resistance Committees announced that the funeral of the group’s secretary-general
8- sheikh Zuheir Qaisi would set out from Al-Awda Mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile
9- Mahmoud Hanani originally from Nablus, will be buried after midday prayer. The funeral will set out from the Shura Mosque in Tal al-Zaatar neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip.
Funerals for
10- Mahmoud Najim and
11- Muhammad Al-Maghari will be held in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.
12- Muhammad Al-Ghamry will be buried in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Medics: New airstrike kills 2 in south Gaza
Medics say an airstrike killed two men in the southern Gaza Strip, raising to 14 the number of Palestinians killed since Israel assassinated a military leader 24 hours earlier.
The latest attack east of Khan Younis came from a drone which fired on a motorcycle, said Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya.
The body of the victim was transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Abu Salmiya said. A critically injured person was taken to the European Hospital, where he later died. Neither was immediately identified.
An Israeli military spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
Earlier, the military said about 90 rockets had been fired toward Israeli territory at the weekend, injuring eight people including one seriously in southern Israel.
Islamic Jihad’s military wing the Al-Quds Brigades said 10 of its fighters have died since Friday. The Al-Quds Brigades launched 41 Grad missiles, 20 projectiles, six mortar shells, and three 107-mm rockets, it said.
Israel kills four more Gaza gunmen, rockets hit Israel
Israel killed four Gaza militants on Saturday as violence sparked by the death of a militant leader a day earlier escalated with gunmen firing more than 90 rockets at Israel, injuring four people, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
In all Israel, has killed 14 militants in aerial strikes launched since Friday, Hamas medics said. In the latest attack, a gunman was killed on a motorcycle and another was critically wounded and later died of his injuries, medics said.
Two other militants from the Islamic Jihad group were killed in predawn strikes on Saturday, officials in Gaza said.
Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, blamed Israel for the violence and called for Western intervention to try and halt any further escalation which threatened to complicate rife tensions along the restive Israeli-Gaza frontier and their common border with Egypt.
"This Israeli escalation in Gaza is completely condemned and we urge the world community, and the Quartet (of Middle East power brokers), especially the United States, to put enough pressure on Israeli government to stop this escalation," Rdainah told Reuters television.
After weeks of relative calm, violence along the Israeli-Gaza frontier escalated on Friday when Israel blew up a car in Gaza City, killing two militant leaders.
Israel said one of the militants killed on Friday had been involved in plotting a cross-border attack from Egypt. Israeli media reports said he had also been closely involved in the 2006 capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, freed as part of a prisoner swap in October.
ISRAEL TARGETS WEAPONS
An Israeli military statement said the latest air strikes had targeted two weapons manufacturing sites. The strikes were launched in response to rocket fire from Gaza that injured four people in Israel, including one man, who is reported to be in a serious condition, it added.
Israeli media said the seriously injured man is a worker from Thailand.
The sounds of explosions and rocket fire reverberated across coastal Gaza and parts of southern Israel early on Saturday. Some half a million people were urged to remain indoors and keep bomb shelters open, and public events were cancelled.
Militant groups in Hamas-ruled Gaza vowed to exact revenge for the killings. According to the Israeli military, more than 90 rockets have been fired at Israel since Friday, including 25 longer-range Grad rockets intercepted by Israel's "Iron Dome" missile interceptor system.
Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) claimed responsibility for most of the rockets and mortar shells fired which they also said totaled more than 70.
Israel launched some half a dozen air strikes at militants in Gaza on Friday, killing 10.
Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, did not claim responsibility for any of the missile attacks on Israel, and there were no reported civilian fatalities in Gaza, factors which may keep the violence from escalating.
However, Israel says it holds Hamas responsible for any attacks launched from its territory.
Around six Palestinians among 17 people wounded in the Israeli attacks have been identified by medics as civilians.
Hamas seized control of Gaza from Abbas's Fatah movement in a bloody 2007 coup, two years after Israel pulled its forces out of the territory it had captured in a 1967 war. (Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Sophie Hares)
Update: Airstrikes kill 3 in south Gaza
Airstrikes continue to rock the Gaza Strip, killing three men on Saturday, raising to 15 the number of Palestinians killed since Israel assassinated a military leader 24 hours earlier.
A further 26 Palestinians have been injured in the strikes, five of whom are in a serious condition, Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said.
The latest attack killed Mahdi Abu Shawish, 24, and injured three others when it targeted a motorcycle near Rabia Al-Adawiya school in southern city Rafah, medics told Ma'an.
Abu Shawish was affiliated to the Popular Resistance Committees' armed wing, whose chief was killed on Friday, a Ma'an reporter said.
Earlier, a drone fired on a motorcycle strike east of Khan Younis killing two men, Abu Salmiya said.
The body of Hussein Barham Al-Breim, 51, was transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Abu Salmiya said.
Mansour Kamal Abu Nuseira, 20, was taken to European Hospital, where he later died.
Also on Saturday, Israeli warplanes bombed a Al-Qassam brigades militant site in western Gaza City neighborhood Abraj Al-Maqousi, injuring three men who were transferred to al-Shifa hospital.
The site was entirely flattened, shattering windows in nearby apartments, witnesses said.
Witnesses said that the location was completely destroyed and it also resulted in breaking the windows of the apartments near the main location.
Israel's army said in a statement that the strike on Khan Younis "thwarted a terrorist squad from firing a rocket at Israel from the southern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were identified." It said later strikes on Rafah and Gaza City "targeted two terror activity sites ... in response to the rockets fired at Israel."
"The IDF is prepared to defend the residents of Israel and will respond with strength and determination against any attempt to execute terrorist attacks," the statement said.
The Israeli military said earlier that about 90 rockets had been fired toward Israeli territory at the weekend, injuring eight people including one seriously in southern Israel.
Islamic Jihad’s military wing said 10 of its fighters have died since Friday. The Al-Quds Brigades launched 41 Grad missiles, 20 projectiles, six mortar shells, and three 107-mm rockets, it said.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement Saturday that the movement holds Israel "fully responsible for the escalation and its results," calling on Egypt to intervene to end the suffering in Gaza.
The Palestinian people have a right to defend themselves against aggression, he said.
Medical official Abu Salmiya called on international organizations and human rights bodies to fulfill their commitment to halt bloodshed in Gaza, in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
After the severe medical and electricity shortages in Gaza, the military operations on the Gaza Strip require urgent intervention to save Gaza from a humanitarian catastrophe, Salmiya said.
Medics say an airstrike killed two men in the southern Gaza Strip, raising to 14 the number of Palestinians killed since Israel assassinated a military leader 24 hours earlier.
The latest attack east of Khan Younis came from a drone which fired on a motorcycle, said Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya.
The body of the victim was transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Abu Salmiya said. A critically injured person was taken to the European Hospital, where he later died. Neither was immediately identified.
An Israeli military spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
Earlier, the military said about 90 rockets had been fired toward Israeli territory at the weekend, injuring eight people including one seriously in southern Israel.
Islamic Jihad’s military wing the Al-Quds Brigades said 10 of its fighters have died since Friday. The Al-Quds Brigades launched 41 Grad missiles, 20 projectiles, six mortar shells, and three 107-mm rockets, it said.
Israel kills four more Gaza gunmen, rockets hit Israel
Israel killed four Gaza militants on Saturday as violence sparked by the death of a militant leader a day earlier escalated with gunmen firing more than 90 rockets at Israel, injuring four people, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
In all Israel, has killed 14 militants in aerial strikes launched since Friday, Hamas medics said. In the latest attack, a gunman was killed on a motorcycle and another was critically wounded and later died of his injuries, medics said.
Two other militants from the Islamic Jihad group were killed in predawn strikes on Saturday, officials in Gaza said.
Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, blamed Israel for the violence and called for Western intervention to try and halt any further escalation which threatened to complicate rife tensions along the restive Israeli-Gaza frontier and their common border with Egypt.
"This Israeli escalation in Gaza is completely condemned and we urge the world community, and the Quartet (of Middle East power brokers), especially the United States, to put enough pressure on Israeli government to stop this escalation," Rdainah told Reuters television.
After weeks of relative calm, violence along the Israeli-Gaza frontier escalated on Friday when Israel blew up a car in Gaza City, killing two militant leaders.
Israel said one of the militants killed on Friday had been involved in plotting a cross-border attack from Egypt. Israeli media reports said he had also been closely involved in the 2006 capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, freed as part of a prisoner swap in October.
ISRAEL TARGETS WEAPONS
An Israeli military statement said the latest air strikes had targeted two weapons manufacturing sites. The strikes were launched in response to rocket fire from Gaza that injured four people in Israel, including one man, who is reported to be in a serious condition, it added.
Israeli media said the seriously injured man is a worker from Thailand.
The sounds of explosions and rocket fire reverberated across coastal Gaza and parts of southern Israel early on Saturday. Some half a million people were urged to remain indoors and keep bomb shelters open, and public events were cancelled.
Militant groups in Hamas-ruled Gaza vowed to exact revenge for the killings. According to the Israeli military, more than 90 rockets have been fired at Israel since Friday, including 25 longer-range Grad rockets intercepted by Israel's "Iron Dome" missile interceptor system.
Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) claimed responsibility for most of the rockets and mortar shells fired which they also said totaled more than 70.
Israel launched some half a dozen air strikes at militants in Gaza on Friday, killing 10.
Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, did not claim responsibility for any of the missile attacks on Israel, and there were no reported civilian fatalities in Gaza, factors which may keep the violence from escalating.
However, Israel says it holds Hamas responsible for any attacks launched from its territory.
Around six Palestinians among 17 people wounded in the Israeli attacks have been identified by medics as civilians.
Hamas seized control of Gaza from Abbas's Fatah movement in a bloody 2007 coup, two years after Israel pulled its forces out of the territory it had captured in a 1967 war. (Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Sophie Hares)
Update: Airstrikes kill 3 in south Gaza
Airstrikes continue to rock the Gaza Strip, killing three men on Saturday, raising to 15 the number of Palestinians killed since Israel assassinated a military leader 24 hours earlier.
A further 26 Palestinians have been injured in the strikes, five of whom are in a serious condition, Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said.
The latest attack killed Mahdi Abu Shawish, 24, and injured three others when it targeted a motorcycle near Rabia Al-Adawiya school in southern city Rafah, medics told Ma'an.
Abu Shawish was affiliated to the Popular Resistance Committees' armed wing, whose chief was killed on Friday, a Ma'an reporter said.
Earlier, a drone fired on a motorcycle strike east of Khan Younis killing two men, Abu Salmiya said.
The body of Hussein Barham Al-Breim, 51, was transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Abu Salmiya said.
Mansour Kamal Abu Nuseira, 20, was taken to European Hospital, where he later died.
Also on Saturday, Israeli warplanes bombed a Al-Qassam brigades militant site in western Gaza City neighborhood Abraj Al-Maqousi, injuring three men who were transferred to al-Shifa hospital.
The site was entirely flattened, shattering windows in nearby apartments, witnesses said.
Witnesses said that the location was completely destroyed and it also resulted in breaking the windows of the apartments near the main location.
Israel's army said in a statement that the strike on Khan Younis "thwarted a terrorist squad from firing a rocket at Israel from the southern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were identified." It said later strikes on Rafah and Gaza City "targeted two terror activity sites ... in response to the rockets fired at Israel."
"The IDF is prepared to defend the residents of Israel and will respond with strength and determination against any attempt to execute terrorist attacks," the statement said.
The Israeli military said earlier that about 90 rockets had been fired toward Israeli territory at the weekend, injuring eight people including one seriously in southern Israel.
Islamic Jihad’s military wing said 10 of its fighters have died since Friday. The Al-Quds Brigades launched 41 Grad missiles, 20 projectiles, six mortar shells, and three 107-mm rockets, it said.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement Saturday that the movement holds Israel "fully responsible for the escalation and its results," calling on Egypt to intervene to end the suffering in Gaza.
The Palestinian people have a right to defend themselves against aggression, he said.
Medical official Abu Salmiya called on international organizations and human rights bodies to fulfill their commitment to halt bloodshed in Gaza, in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
After the severe medical and electricity shortages in Gaza, the military operations on the Gaza Strip require urgent intervention to save Gaza from a humanitarian catastrophe, Salmiya said.
