26 mar 2012
Four-year-old girl has died due to power outage
Beesan El-Mashharawi 4
Officials in the Gaza Strip have announced that a four-year-old girl has died due to power outage in a hospital in the besieged coastal area, Press TV reports.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Monday that the four-year-old child died as a result of failure in hospital back-up generators, a Press TV correspondent reported.
On Friday, an infant also died in the coastal enclave after the generator powering his respirator ran out of fuel.
The Israeli blockade of Gaza has inflicted many sufferings, including fuel shortages on Palestinians.
Gaza has been relying on fuel imported from Egypt, but Cairo has recently cut off the supplies, causing 18-hour-a-day power cuts. Prolonged power outages caused by shortage of fuel continue to take their toll on hospital patients in the Gaza Strip.
Last week, thousands of people staged a protest in the Gaza Strip and called on Egypt to resume the flow of fuel to the besieged territory.
Beesan El-Mashharawi 4
Officials in the Gaza Strip have announced that a four-year-old girl has died due to power outage in a hospital in the besieged coastal area, Press TV reports.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Monday that the four-year-old child died as a result of failure in hospital back-up generators, a Press TV correspondent reported.
On Friday, an infant also died in the coastal enclave after the generator powering his respirator ran out of fuel.
The Israeli blockade of Gaza has inflicted many sufferings, including fuel shortages on Palestinians.
Gaza has been relying on fuel imported from Egypt, but Cairo has recently cut off the supplies, causing 18-hour-a-day power cuts. Prolonged power outages caused by shortage of fuel continue to take their toll on hospital patients in the Gaza Strip.
Last week, thousands of people staged a protest in the Gaza Strip and called on Egypt to resume the flow of fuel to the besieged territory.
25 mar 2012
Racist writer of "Western World is Blind" Shaul Rosenfeld
By Khalid Amayreh
The title of this article might be viewed as particularly provoking to many Jews, especially those who are accustomed to shutting up western critics of Israel.
The more racist-minded Jews, and there are certainly too many of those, might hasten to dismiss it as plainly anti-Semitic.
This week, one Israeli writer, scrawled a screed entitled “Western World is Blind,” in which he argued that “despite Muslim murderousness, the west refrained from admitting Islam is the problem.”
Hence, I thought that if they can write about “Muslim murderousness.” I, too, should be able to write about Jewish murderousness as well. After all, Jewish terror, has always been an outstanding phenomenon, past and present.
I don’t think that Muslims are angels or totally immune from evil urges to commit murder.
However, I also do believe that the given the large number of Muslims in the world (1.6 billion human beings), the number of Muslims who resort to murder is quite negligible. I am saying this with no intention to lessen or mitigate the gravity of violence and terror perpetrated by nominal Muslims and groups such as al-Qaeda.
This is despite the real, legitimate grievances of Muslims around the world, such as in occupied Palestine, Syria , Iraq , Sudan , Chechnya , eastern Turkistan , Afghanistan , Pakistan and Burma .
On the other hand, there is irrefutable evidence that there are far more Jews per capita who indulge in murder and terror. This is a plain fact in occupied Palestine where nearly every adult Israeli Jew stands guilty for mistreating, harassing, persecuting or even killing a Palestinian.
The bottom line here is that if murderousness is measured by the sheer numbers of innocent victims murdered knowingly and deliberately, then there is no shred of doubt that Israeli Jews will emerge the ultimate winners.
Well, in fact Israeli Jews have always been the winner as far the disproportionately high number of their terror’s innocent victims. I know saying this is not politically correct in places like New York, Paris and London. But one has to be honest and truth must be told.
The murder of four Jews at the hands of a French Muslim citizen has been condemned by Muslims in Europe and the Middle East, both individuals and organizations. However, instead of forming a united front against terror and murder, involving people of good-will, Muslims and Jews alike, we saw that many Jewish leaders and intellectuals, as well the usual shipyard dogs of the Zionist media, granted themselves a sort of carte branch, to attack, vilify and demonize Muslims.
In May 2007, a Jewish French immigrant by the name of Jullien Soufir, lured 35-year-old Taysir Karaki, a taxi driver from Beit Hanina, an East Jerusalem neighborhood and a father of five, to his apartment in Tel Aviv. Soufir decapitated Karaki with a dagger. Soufir, who had been frequenting a synagogue nearby, bragged about his crime.
In March 2009, a Tel Aviv court ruled Soufir paranoid and schizophrenic and that he was unfit to be tried for murder. He was released after all sorts of extenuating circumstances were concocted. I don’t know where Soufir is spending his time now, but I suppose he is being allowed to travel abroad, especially to France.
Now, does Soufir’s crime allow one to speak of Jewish murderousness (as opposed to Muslim murderousness) and French or European blindness to Jewish terror?
By Khalid Amayreh
The title of this article might be viewed as particularly provoking to many Jews, especially those who are accustomed to shutting up western critics of Israel.
The more racist-minded Jews, and there are certainly too many of those, might hasten to dismiss it as plainly anti-Semitic.
This week, one Israeli writer, scrawled a screed entitled “Western World is Blind,” in which he argued that “despite Muslim murderousness, the west refrained from admitting Islam is the problem.”
Hence, I thought that if they can write about “Muslim murderousness.” I, too, should be able to write about Jewish murderousness as well. After all, Jewish terror, has always been an outstanding phenomenon, past and present.
I don’t think that Muslims are angels or totally immune from evil urges to commit murder.
However, I also do believe that the given the large number of Muslims in the world (1.6 billion human beings), the number of Muslims who resort to murder is quite negligible. I am saying this with no intention to lessen or mitigate the gravity of violence and terror perpetrated by nominal Muslims and groups such as al-Qaeda.
This is despite the real, legitimate grievances of Muslims around the world, such as in occupied Palestine, Syria , Iraq , Sudan , Chechnya , eastern Turkistan , Afghanistan , Pakistan and Burma .
On the other hand, there is irrefutable evidence that there are far more Jews per capita who indulge in murder and terror. This is a plain fact in occupied Palestine where nearly every adult Israeli Jew stands guilty for mistreating, harassing, persecuting or even killing a Palestinian.
The bottom line here is that if murderousness is measured by the sheer numbers of innocent victims murdered knowingly and deliberately, then there is no shred of doubt that Israeli Jews will emerge the ultimate winners.
Well, in fact Israeli Jews have always been the winner as far the disproportionately high number of their terror’s innocent victims. I know saying this is not politically correct in places like New York, Paris and London. But one has to be honest and truth must be told.
The murder of four Jews at the hands of a French Muslim citizen has been condemned by Muslims in Europe and the Middle East, both individuals and organizations. However, instead of forming a united front against terror and murder, involving people of good-will, Muslims and Jews alike, we saw that many Jewish leaders and intellectuals, as well the usual shipyard dogs of the Zionist media, granted themselves a sort of carte branch, to attack, vilify and demonize Muslims.
In May 2007, a Jewish French immigrant by the name of Jullien Soufir, lured 35-year-old Taysir Karaki, a taxi driver from Beit Hanina, an East Jerusalem neighborhood and a father of five, to his apartment in Tel Aviv. Soufir decapitated Karaki with a dagger. Soufir, who had been frequenting a synagogue nearby, bragged about his crime.
In March 2009, a Tel Aviv court ruled Soufir paranoid and schizophrenic and that he was unfit to be tried for murder. He was released after all sorts of extenuating circumstances were concocted. I don’t know where Soufir is spending his time now, but I suppose he is being allowed to travel abroad, especially to France.
Now, does Soufir’s crime allow one to speak of Jewish murderousness (as opposed to Muslim murderousness) and French or European blindness to Jewish terror?
Of course, the murder of Karaki was not an isolated case of Jewish terror. Jewish terror, especially by Talmudic-minded settlers in the West Bank, is a matter of daily occurrence. Read B’tselem’s reports and you will get a pretty good idea of what I am talking about.
In fact, the monstrosity and shocking regularity of Israeli (Jewish) crimes in Palestine and Lebanon present an absolute indictment of Israel as a crime against humanity.
Israeli crimes are too numerous to be counted and too nefarious to be forgotten with the passage of time. Israel’s history is actually an uninterrupted chain of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Again, the Toulouse school crime is gruesome, but the genocidal “Jewish” crimes, such as Dir Yasin, Dawaymeh, Sabra and Shatila, Ibrahimi mosque, and recently in Gaza, make what happened in Toulouse look quite insignificant.
The perpetrator of the Toulouse school is believed to have been a member of al-Qaeda, a group which is hounded and mercilessly fought in all Muslim countries, including the Gaza Strip.
But can anyone tell us how Israeli and Jewish circles treat Jewish terrorists and murderers, active and potential? Does anyone remember what happened to the Jewish murderer of Kayed Salah, the Hebronite shop keeper, who was killed in cold blood in 1988 by a “rabbi” named Moshe Levinger? As far as I know, the Kahanist rabbi didn’t serve a single day in jail?
We know and the world knows that Jewish murderers and terrorists are not only admired, honored and celebrated in Israel, but also made to benefit from a shockingly racist, even fascist, justice system that treats them as innocent, even if found guilty in court.
In a society where non-Jews, who constitute nearly 50% of the population living under Israeli control, non-Jews are treated as Children of a lesser God, or Untermenschen, using the Nazi term. It is simply difficult for Gentiles, especially defenseless, helpless and unprotected Gentiles such as the Palestinians to receive justice and equality.
Most Israelis know this fact too well, but they often think that is the way it should be.
A final note: It is noted that Israeli propagandistic circles are trying to team up with their “colleagues” in France to form a common “civility front” against Muslims, e.g. terrorists.
Well, we saw how France behaved in Algeria a few decades ago. Probably Hitler would have had much to learn from the French experiment in the North African country. But the solidarity between France and Israel, which we see these days, reminds us of the umbilical alliance between the apartheid Jewish state and the United States, the country whose forefathers murdered millions of Native Americans and called the genocide Manifest Destiny.
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In fact, the monstrosity and shocking regularity of Israeli (Jewish) crimes in Palestine and Lebanon present an absolute indictment of Israel as a crime against humanity.
Israeli crimes are too numerous to be counted and too nefarious to be forgotten with the passage of time. Israel’s history is actually an uninterrupted chain of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Again, the Toulouse school crime is gruesome, but the genocidal “Jewish” crimes, such as Dir Yasin, Dawaymeh, Sabra and Shatila, Ibrahimi mosque, and recently in Gaza, make what happened in Toulouse look quite insignificant.
The perpetrator of the Toulouse school is believed to have been a member of al-Qaeda, a group which is hounded and mercilessly fought in all Muslim countries, including the Gaza Strip.
But can anyone tell us how Israeli and Jewish circles treat Jewish terrorists and murderers, active and potential? Does anyone remember what happened to the Jewish murderer of Kayed Salah, the Hebronite shop keeper, who was killed in cold blood in 1988 by a “rabbi” named Moshe Levinger? As far as I know, the Kahanist rabbi didn’t serve a single day in jail?
We know and the world knows that Jewish murderers and terrorists are not only admired, honored and celebrated in Israel, but also made to benefit from a shockingly racist, even fascist, justice system that treats them as innocent, even if found guilty in court.
In a society where non-Jews, who constitute nearly 50% of the population living under Israeli control, non-Jews are treated as Children of a lesser God, or Untermenschen, using the Nazi term. It is simply difficult for Gentiles, especially defenseless, helpless and unprotected Gentiles such as the Palestinians to receive justice and equality.
Most Israelis know this fact too well, but they often think that is the way it should be.
A final note: It is noted that Israeli propagandistic circles are trying to team up with their “colleagues” in France to form a common “civility front” against Muslims, e.g. terrorists.
Well, we saw how France behaved in Algeria a few decades ago. Probably Hitler would have had much to learn from the French experiment in the North African country. But the solidarity between France and Israel, which we see these days, reminds us of the umbilical alliance between the apartheid Jewish state and the United States, the country whose forefathers murdered millions of Native Americans and called the genocide Manifest Destiny.
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24 mar 2012
Mohammed Helou 7 months
A seven-month-old baby in Gaza died on Friday evening after medical equipment he was connected to switched off as a result of a power cut, a Hamas-affiliated TV channel said.
Gaza medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya confirmed the incident, adding that the infant was born with respiratory
A seven-month-old baby in Gaza died on Friday evening after medical equipment he was connected to switched off as a result of a power cut, a Hamas-affiliated TV channel said.
Gaza medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya confirmed the incident, adding that the infant was born with respiratory
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The father of the child had turned on the apparatus before going to sleep but during the night a power cut caused it to switch off, resulting in the infant’s death, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV reported. The child was the “first victim of the current power crisis in Gaza,” Abu Salmiya said, warning that the medical sector in the coastal enclave is in jeopardy. Recent fuel shortages have had a catastrophic effect on daily life in the Gaza Strip, with people facing daily power cuts of up to 18 hours a day. |
16 mar 2012
Ahmed at Alqtarawi 24
One man was killed and three injured during an exchange of fire on the Israel-Egypt border Thursday evening, the Israeli army said.
The military said in a statement that its soldiers shot at a group trying to enter Israel from Egypt and hit three people after they failed to respond to calls to stop. The army said shots were fired simultaneously from the Egyptian side.
Israeli soldiers pursued and caught three injured men and a fourth was found dead "at the point of infiltration," the army said.
The injured people were taken to an Israeli hospital by helicopter, the military added. No Israeli soldiers were hurt.
Egypt's security chief in the northern Sinai Saleh al-Masry said the men were Bedouin cigarette smugglers, CNN reported. He said Israeli authorities had not officially informed their Egyptian counterparts of the incident.
In its statement announcing the shooting, the Israeli army referred to an earlier incident in which it claimed an explosive device was found along the border.
"It should be noted that this February, a powerful explosive device was planted along the Israel-Egypt border during a smuggling attempt," the military said.
Al-Masry rejected the claim and accused Israel of "politicizing" the incident, CNN reported.
One man was killed and three injured during an exchange of fire on the Israel-Egypt border Thursday evening, the Israeli army said.
The military said in a statement that its soldiers shot at a group trying to enter Israel from Egypt and hit three people after they failed to respond to calls to stop. The army said shots were fired simultaneously from the Egyptian side.
Israeli soldiers pursued and caught three injured men and a fourth was found dead "at the point of infiltration," the army said.
The injured people were taken to an Israeli hospital by helicopter, the military added. No Israeli soldiers were hurt.
Egypt's security chief in the northern Sinai Saleh al-Masry said the men were Bedouin cigarette smugglers, CNN reported. He said Israeli authorities had not officially informed their Egyptian counterparts of the incident.
In its statement announcing the shooting, the Israeli army referred to an earlier incident in which it claimed an explosive device was found along the border.
"It should be noted that this February, a powerful explosive device was planted along the Israel-Egypt border during a smuggling attempt," the military said.
Al-Masry rejected the claim and accused Israel of "politicizing" the incident, CNN reported.
14 mar 2012
Child dies of injures suffered from Israeli military attack
Baraka Al-Maghribi 7
A Palestinian child on Wednesday morning was proclaimed dead of serious wounds he sustained during the recent Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.
A spokesman for the ambulance and emergency service in Gaza said a seven-year old boy called Baraka Al-Maghribi died this morning of injuries he sustained during an Israeli military attack on a populated area in Gaza city.
The Israeli military escalation against Gaza has claimed the lives of 26 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and resulted in the injury of 100 others.
In another incident, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violated the Egyptian-brokered truce and bombed a timber warehouse at dawn Wednesday causing huge material damage to nearby houses in Gaza city.
Local sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that two missiles fired by an Israeli warplane landed near a timber warehouse causing a widespread fire that destroyed the store and seriously affected nearby houses.
Earlier on Tuesday night, the Israeli artillery bombed the eastern outskirts of Gaza without any reported casualties. The attack and the sound of Israeli warplanes overflying the area caused panic among civilians living nearby.
A Palestinian child on Wednesday morning was proclaimed dead of serious wounds he sustained during the recent Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.
A spokesman for the ambulance and emergency service in Gaza said a seven-year old boy called Baraka Al-Maghribi died this morning of injuries he sustained during an Israeli military attack on a populated area in Gaza city.
The Israeli military escalation against Gaza has claimed the lives of 26 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and resulted in the injury of 100 others.
In another incident, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violated the Egyptian-brokered truce and bombed a timber warehouse at dawn Wednesday causing huge material damage to nearby houses in Gaza city.
Local sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that two missiles fired by an Israeli warplane landed near a timber warehouse causing a widespread fire that destroyed the store and seriously affected nearby houses.
Earlier on Tuesday night, the Israeli artillery bombed the eastern outskirts of Gaza without any reported casualties. The attack and the sound of Israeli warplanes overflying the area caused panic among civilians living nearby.
12 mar 2012
Teenager killed on his way to school in an Israeli military drone strike
Nayef Qarmut 14
On 12 March 2012, a 14-year-old boy is killed by an unexploded missile found by a friend in empty land in the north of Gaza.
On 12 March 2012, 14-year-old Naief and his friends decided to skip school and go the beach instead. “We got there at around 8:00 am,” says his relative and friend Saleh. “We heard explosions and saw drone planes circling the sky. We played at the beach and goofed around for some time. There weren’t many people there because the area is close to the northern border, so we decided to go somewhere else.”
The children took the same road back and passed by an empty piece of land where people from the neighbourhood often played football. “We ran and played in the empty area,” continues Saleh. “Then, I saw Tamer picking up an object that looked like a pipe. "Missile, missile!" he shouted, and we all gathered around him to see what he had found. It was a metal object with a sharp head. We often saw things like this during the war or on television. The object was brown, about 30 centimetres long; it looked like a 4-inch pipe. It was heavy, about five kilograms. It was stuffed with solid cork material. It had like a powder inside, but I did not see any wires,” Saleh explains.
“All of my friends wanted to hold it in their hands. Naief took it and lifted it up in the air and said, 'Why is it so heavy?'” As Tamer tried to take the object back, Naief tripped and fell down. “I think he tripped over a stone or something,” says Saleh. “As he fell, there was a huge explosion and black smoke filled the whole place. I fell down, feeling my face and my body were on fire. I felt harsh pain in my legs and arms, and became really dizzy. I heard my friends shouting and crying. I could not see them because of the thick black smoke. The pain was so harsh that I felt as if the world was spinning around me. The last thing I remember is hearing ambulances approaching.”
Naief was instantly killed. The rest of the children were injured, some of them severely. “I underwent surgery; the doctors removed part of my intestine and cleaned the wounds all over my body,” says Tamer. “I was told that all my friends were hospitalised at Shifa Hospital. I went to see Saleh and Hani in the Orthopaedics unit. Both suffered burns and leg fractures. I could not see Moayyad because he was in the burn unit. Said had to be transferred to an Israeli hospital because he was in critical condition.”
“The incident has affected me significantly," says Tamer. "I do not know whether I will be able to go back to school, or whether I be able to walk normally again. I always have nightmares. But I know one thing: we all loved Naief. He was my neighbour, my classmate and my friend.”
On 12 March 2012, a 14-year-old boy is killed by an unexploded missile found by a friend in empty land in the north of Gaza.
On 12 March 2012, 14-year-old Naief and his friends decided to skip school and go the beach instead. “We got there at around 8:00 am,” says his relative and friend Saleh. “We heard explosions and saw drone planes circling the sky. We played at the beach and goofed around for some time. There weren’t many people there because the area is close to the northern border, so we decided to go somewhere else.”
The children took the same road back and passed by an empty piece of land where people from the neighbourhood often played football. “We ran and played in the empty area,” continues Saleh. “Then, I saw Tamer picking up an object that looked like a pipe. "Missile, missile!" he shouted, and we all gathered around him to see what he had found. It was a metal object with a sharp head. We often saw things like this during the war or on television. The object was brown, about 30 centimetres long; it looked like a 4-inch pipe. It was heavy, about five kilograms. It was stuffed with solid cork material. It had like a powder inside, but I did not see any wires,” Saleh explains.
“All of my friends wanted to hold it in their hands. Naief took it and lifted it up in the air and said, 'Why is it so heavy?'” As Tamer tried to take the object back, Naief tripped and fell down. “I think he tripped over a stone or something,” says Saleh. “As he fell, there was a huge explosion and black smoke filled the whole place. I fell down, feeling my face and my body were on fire. I felt harsh pain in my legs and arms, and became really dizzy. I heard my friends shouting and crying. I could not see them because of the thick black smoke. The pain was so harsh that I felt as if the world was spinning around me. The last thing I remember is hearing ambulances approaching.”
Naief was instantly killed. The rest of the children were injured, some of them severely. “I underwent surgery; the doctors removed part of my intestine and cleaned the wounds all over my body,” says Tamer. “I was told that all my friends were hospitalised at Shifa Hospital. I went to see Saleh and Hani in the Orthopaedics unit. Both suffered burns and leg fractures. I could not see Moayyad because he was in the burn unit. Said had to be transferred to an Israeli hospital because he was in critical condition.”
“The incident has affected me significantly," says Tamer. "I do not know whether I will be able to go back to school, or whether I be able to walk normally again. I always have nightmares. But I know one thing: we all loved Naief. He was my neighbour, my classmate and my friend.”
Raafat Jawad Abu Eid
Medical sources say three Palestinians, including a teenager, have been killed in new Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll from the Israeli air raids in the past few days to 21.
A 14-year-old Palestinian child was killed in the latest attack against northern Gaza on Monday.
The medical sources also said two other Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza earlier on Monday.
Nearly 40 more Palestinians were also injured in the Israeli aerial attacks against Gaza during the early hours of Monday.
In addition to the Monday airstrikes, 18 Palestinians were also killed in Israeli attacks conducted within the period of March 9 to 11.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blatantly said on Sunday that the Tel Aviv regime will continue airstrikes against Gaza “as long as necessary.”
Meanwhile, China urged the Tel Aviv regime to stop its airstrikes on Gaza on Monday.
“China is concerned about the escalation of the situation in Gaza,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin said.
“We call upon the Israeli side to stop air raids against Gaza. We hope parties concerned can stop firing immediately in order to avoid casualties of innocent civilians,” Weimin added.
The Jordanian government also condemned the “barbaric aggression” of the Tel Aviv regime on Sunday.
In addition to Jordan and China, Turkish activists from the Organization of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed People held a demonstration in the capital Ankara to condemn the Israeli airstrikes on Sunday.
Israel imposed a war on the Gaza Strip in December 2008-January 2009. More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed in the conflict.
5 killed, 46 injured in fourth day of Gaza airstrikes
Israeli airstrikes killed two Islamic Jihad militants and three civilians on Monday, bringing the death toll since Friday to 23 people, medics and Ma'an's correspondent said.
An airstrike on Monday afternoon in Beit Lahiya killed Muhammad al-Hasoumi, 65, and his daughter, Fayza Al Hasoumi 35, medical spokesperson in Gaza Abu Salmiya said.
Earlier, hospital officials said a 17-year-old schoolboy was killed in a separate air strike during the day on Monday. Nayif Shaaban Qarmout was killed in Beit Lahiya, north Gaza, Ma'an's correspondent said.
Witnesses said that the 17-year-old was playing with friends in a play ground near his school when an Israeli missile hit the area.
Five others were injured and taken to Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Early Monday, two Islamic Jihad militants, Raafat Abu Eid, 24, and Hamadah Salman Abu Mutlaq, 24, were killed in Khan Younis, Ma'an's correspondent said. Abu Eid was killed when an airstrike targeted a vehicle he was traveling in.
Two other militants sustained injuries and a female passerby was also injured in the attack.
Abu Mutlaq, 24, was killed near a mosque in a village east of Khan Younis after warplanes fired at him. Three others were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.
Earlier, Israeli airstrikes had hit two homes in the northern Gaza Strip, injuring 33 civilians, most of whom were women and children, Abu Salmiya said.
Most sustained moderate injuries, with one critically injured, and were transferred to hospital.
A 17-year-old girl and another man were also injured as Israeli missiles struck a home in Gaza City, Abu Salmiya said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said aircraft had carried out six strikes on Monday. At least 20 rockets have been fired at Israel on Monday, she said.
The army targeted "a weapons storage facility and four rocket launching sites in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as a rocket launching site in the southern Gaza Strip," a statement said.
Israel's army denied, however, that there had been any military activity in the northern Gaza Strip at the time of 15-year-old Nayif Shaaban Qarmout's death.
Gaza's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said late Sunday that neighboring Egypt was working to stop the violence and was consulting with militant factions but added that Israel would have to first stop its air strikes.
The latest round of violence flared on Friday when an Israeli airstrike killed two militant leaders in Gaza.
Israel accused them of planning a cross-border attack via Egypt, although an Egyptian official said Sunday that the Sinai is "fully under control."
"This is an attempt by Israel to give justification for the offensive against Gaza," he said.
On Sunday, PLO official Hanan Ashrawi strongly condemned Israel's latest military escalation.
"The Israeli government has acted with impunity for its unilateral violations for far too long. The illegal, cruel siege of the Gaza Strip, along with all other violations of international law must come to an end."
The PLO official called on the international community to take serious measures to halt Israel's policy of extrajudicial executions and the continued killing of innocent civilians.
Medical sources say three Palestinians, including a teenager, have been killed in new Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll from the Israeli air raids in the past few days to 21.
A 14-year-old Palestinian child was killed in the latest attack against northern Gaza on Monday.
The medical sources also said two other Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza earlier on Monday.
Nearly 40 more Palestinians were also injured in the Israeli aerial attacks against Gaza during the early hours of Monday.
In addition to the Monday airstrikes, 18 Palestinians were also killed in Israeli attacks conducted within the period of March 9 to 11.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blatantly said on Sunday that the Tel Aviv regime will continue airstrikes against Gaza “as long as necessary.”
Meanwhile, China urged the Tel Aviv regime to stop its airstrikes on Gaza on Monday.
“China is concerned about the escalation of the situation in Gaza,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin said.
“We call upon the Israeli side to stop air raids against Gaza. We hope parties concerned can stop firing immediately in order to avoid casualties of innocent civilians,” Weimin added.
The Jordanian government also condemned the “barbaric aggression” of the Tel Aviv regime on Sunday.
In addition to Jordan and China, Turkish activists from the Organization of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed People held a demonstration in the capital Ankara to condemn the Israeli airstrikes on Sunday.
Israel imposed a war on the Gaza Strip in December 2008-January 2009. More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed in the conflict.
5 killed, 46 injured in fourth day of Gaza airstrikes
Israeli airstrikes killed two Islamic Jihad militants and three civilians on Monday, bringing the death toll since Friday to 23 people, medics and Ma'an's correspondent said.
An airstrike on Monday afternoon in Beit Lahiya killed Muhammad al-Hasoumi, 65, and his daughter, Fayza Al Hasoumi 35, medical spokesperson in Gaza Abu Salmiya said.
Earlier, hospital officials said a 17-year-old schoolboy was killed in a separate air strike during the day on Monday. Nayif Shaaban Qarmout was killed in Beit Lahiya, north Gaza, Ma'an's correspondent said.
Witnesses said that the 17-year-old was playing with friends in a play ground near his school when an Israeli missile hit the area.
Five others were injured and taken to Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Early Monday, two Islamic Jihad militants, Raafat Abu Eid, 24, and Hamadah Salman Abu Mutlaq, 24, were killed in Khan Younis, Ma'an's correspondent said. Abu Eid was killed when an airstrike targeted a vehicle he was traveling in.
Two other militants sustained injuries and a female passerby was also injured in the attack.
Abu Mutlaq, 24, was killed near a mosque in a village east of Khan Younis after warplanes fired at him. Three others were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.
Earlier, Israeli airstrikes had hit two homes in the northern Gaza Strip, injuring 33 civilians, most of whom were women and children, Abu Salmiya said.
Most sustained moderate injuries, with one critically injured, and were transferred to hospital.
A 17-year-old girl and another man were also injured as Israeli missiles struck a home in Gaza City, Abu Salmiya said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said aircraft had carried out six strikes on Monday. At least 20 rockets have been fired at Israel on Monday, she said.
The army targeted "a weapons storage facility and four rocket launching sites in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as a rocket launching site in the southern Gaza Strip," a statement said.
Israel's army denied, however, that there had been any military activity in the northern Gaza Strip at the time of 15-year-old Nayif Shaaban Qarmout's death.
Gaza's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said late Sunday that neighboring Egypt was working to stop the violence and was consulting with militant factions but added that Israel would have to first stop its air strikes.
The latest round of violence flared on Friday when an Israeli airstrike killed two militant leaders in Gaza.
Israel accused them of planning a cross-border attack via Egypt, although an Egyptian official said Sunday that the Sinai is "fully under control."
"This is an attempt by Israel to give justification for the offensive against Gaza," he said.
On Sunday, PLO official Hanan Ashrawi strongly condemned Israel's latest military escalation.
"The Israeli government has acted with impunity for its unilateral violations for far too long. The illegal, cruel siege of the Gaza Strip, along with all other violations of international law must come to an end."
The PLO official called on the international community to take serious measures to halt Israel's policy of extrajudicial executions and the continued killing of innocent civilians.
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