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Reema Saad Kamel Saad Ammar Tayseer Ayesh Al-Omoor, 11
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Palestinians inspect a building damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on 12 May
The Israeli government posted a more than two-year-old video apparently from Syria, claiming it was from Gaza, in order to justify its ongoing bombing campaign that has killed dozens of Palestinians since Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arabic spokesperson Ofir Gendelman tweeted a 28-second video on Tuesday.
The video shows the rapid firing of rockets from next to what looks like an apartment building.
“Another video showing how Hamas is firing rockets at Israel from populated areas in the Gaza Strip,” Gendelman wrote.
He then accused Hamas, the Palestinian resistance faction that governs Gaza’s internal affairs, of “targeting civilians while using them as human shields.”
The words “Gaza now” are watermarked on the video in English and Arabic.
Another video showing how Hamas is firing rockets at Israel from populated areas in the Gaza Strip. This is a double war crime: targeting civilians while using them as human shields.
1/3 of these 250+ rockets fell inside the Gaza Strip, killing Palestinians. #GuardiansOfTheWalls pic.twitter.com/GP9Hh52RW6
— Ofir Gendelman (@ofirgendelman) May 11, 2021
But there is one problem: The video is old and does not appear to originate from the Gaza Strip.
The exact same video, just two seconds longer, had been posted on YouTube on 22 December 2019 by a user who indicated that it was filmed in Maarrat al-Numan, a city in northeastern Syria.
The same video was also posted on YouTube on 26 June 2018 by at least two different users, both indicating it shows rockets being fired towards the Daraa region in southwestern Syria.
The Israeli government posted a more than two-year-old video apparently from Syria, claiming it was from Gaza, in order to justify its ongoing bombing campaign that has killed dozens of Palestinians since Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arabic spokesperson Ofir Gendelman tweeted a 28-second video on Tuesday.
The video shows the rapid firing of rockets from next to what looks like an apartment building.
“Another video showing how Hamas is firing rockets at Israel from populated areas in the Gaza Strip,” Gendelman wrote.
He then accused Hamas, the Palestinian resistance faction that governs Gaza’s internal affairs, of “targeting civilians while using them as human shields.”
The words “Gaza now” are watermarked on the video in English and Arabic.
Another video showing how Hamas is firing rockets at Israel from populated areas in the Gaza Strip. This is a double war crime: targeting civilians while using them as human shields.
1/3 of these 250+ rockets fell inside the Gaza Strip, killing Palestinians. #GuardiansOfTheWalls pic.twitter.com/GP9Hh52RW6
— Ofir Gendelman (@ofirgendelman) May 11, 2021
But there is one problem: The video is old and does not appear to originate from the Gaza Strip.
The exact same video, just two seconds longer, had been posted on YouTube on 22 December 2019 by a user who indicated that it was filmed in Maarrat al-Numan, a city in northeastern Syria.
The same video was also posted on YouTube on 26 June 2018 by at least two different users, both indicating it shows rockets being fired towards the Daraa region in southwestern Syria.
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Other journalists have similarly confirmed the video to be from 2018.
Although it’s difficult to determine where the video came from with absolute certainty, its emergence on the internet without doubt predates Israel’s current aggression in Gaza by years.
The original video contains no watermark or text suggesting any connection with Gaza, and there is no indication that this video is connected to the territory beyond Gendelman’s tweet.
This is a familiar propaganda tactic.
During Israel’s massive bombing campaign in Gaza in July 2014, Israel supporters widely shared a video claiming to show “Hamas using children as human shields.”
The video showed a man firing a mortar. Behind him was a group of small children huddled with an older man.
But this too was a video from the civil war in Syria, with no connection to Gaza.
Video posted by Nazareth manIn another tweet on Tuesday, Gendelman posted a video showing men lying on the ground pretending to be incapacitated.
“Hamas, as per usual, is trying to mislead the media and public by staging fabricated plays, making young men who are alive appear to be corpses,” he wrote. tweet
The video, however, appears to have been originally posted on video-sharing platform TikTok on 26 March.
The user who posted the video, Moslem Abo Rabea, indicates on his profile that he lives in the city of Nazareth in northern Israel.
Hamas is not mentioned in the video.
There is a watermark on the video posted by Gendelman indicating that it was taken from Abo Rabea’s TikTok profile.
The same men appear together in other videos posted by Abo Rabea on the same day.
It is unclear what the original context of the video posted by Gendelman is, but what is certain is that it predates the current escalation in Gaza and appears to have no connection to the territory.
Gendelman’s lies
Although it’s difficult to determine where the video came from with absolute certainty, its emergence on the internet without doubt predates Israel’s current aggression in Gaza by years.
The original video contains no watermark or text suggesting any connection with Gaza, and there is no indication that this video is connected to the territory beyond Gendelman’s tweet.
This is a familiar propaganda tactic.
During Israel’s massive bombing campaign in Gaza in July 2014, Israel supporters widely shared a video claiming to show “Hamas using children as human shields.”
The video showed a man firing a mortar. Behind him was a group of small children huddled with an older man.
But this too was a video from the civil war in Syria, with no connection to Gaza.
Video posted by Nazareth manIn another tweet on Tuesday, Gendelman posted a video showing men lying on the ground pretending to be incapacitated.
“Hamas, as per usual, is trying to mislead the media and public by staging fabricated plays, making young men who are alive appear to be corpses,” he wrote. tweet
The video, however, appears to have been originally posted on video-sharing platform TikTok on 26 March.
The user who posted the video, Moslem Abo Rabea, indicates on his profile that he lives in the city of Nazareth in northern Israel.
Hamas is not mentioned in the video.
There is a watermark on the video posted by Gendelman indicating that it was taken from Abo Rabea’s TikTok profile.
The same men appear together in other videos posted by Abo Rabea on the same day.
It is unclear what the original context of the video posted by Gendelman is, but what is certain is that it predates the current escalation in Gaza and appears to have no connection to the territory.
Gendelman’s lies
Screenshot of a now-deleted tweet by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arabic spokesperson Ofir Gendelman after Twitter labeled it as featuring “manipulated media.”
Lying for propaganda value appears to be a longstanding tradition for Netanyahu’s spokesperson.
In 2019, Gendelman tweeted an image of female protesters in Gaza holding Palestinian flags, calling them “ISIS women,” without providing any proof that they did in fact support the so-called Islamic State.
In April 2018, Gendelman misleadingly used an image of large tire fire at a landfill in Texas along with a tweet accusing Hamas of planning to torch the Israel-Gaza boundary fence with fire using tires.
The picture appears to have been taken from a video of a tire fire in Odessa, Texas, posted on Youtube in April 2017.
The same month, Gendelman tweeted a video clip containing fake subtitles, which claimed a young woman was saying something different than she actually did.
In 2012, Gendleman posted a graphic that looked like a hospital sign, published by the Israeli army, purporting to show that Hamas leaders hide under hospitals and stockpile weapons there.
The sign was fake.
Update After this article was published, Twitter labeled Gendelman’s tweet containing an old video apparently from Syria as featuring “manipulated media.”
Gendelman deleted the tweet shortly after on Thursday.
His other tweet implying without any evidence that Hamas is connected to a video of men lying on the ground pretending to be incapacitated remains up on Gendelman’s page.
Ali Abunimah contributed reporting.
Lying for propaganda value appears to be a longstanding tradition for Netanyahu’s spokesperson.
In 2019, Gendelman tweeted an image of female protesters in Gaza holding Palestinian flags, calling them “ISIS women,” without providing any proof that they did in fact support the so-called Islamic State.
In April 2018, Gendelman misleadingly used an image of large tire fire at a landfill in Texas along with a tweet accusing Hamas of planning to torch the Israel-Gaza boundary fence with fire using tires.
The picture appears to have been taken from a video of a tire fire in Odessa, Texas, posted on Youtube in April 2017.
The same month, Gendelman tweeted a video clip containing fake subtitles, which claimed a young woman was saying something different than she actually did.
In 2012, Gendleman posted a graphic that looked like a hospital sign, published by the Israeli army, purporting to show that Hamas leaders hide under hospitals and stockpile weapons there.
The sign was fake.
Update After this article was published, Twitter labeled Gendelman’s tweet containing an old video apparently from Syria as featuring “manipulated media.”
Gendelman deleted the tweet shortly after on Thursday.
His other tweet implying without any evidence that Hamas is connected to a video of men lying on the ground pretending to be incapacitated remains up on Gendelman’s page.
Ali Abunimah contributed reporting.
Israeli soldiers killed, Wednesday, at least twenty Palestinians during ongoing bombardment and shelling targeting all parts of the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli missiles struck homes, residential buildings, infrastructure, streets, and many other facilities.
Update: In a recent airstrike at night, Wednesday, the Israeli missiles killed two children, identified as Mariam Mohammad Odah at-Tilbani, 3, and her brother Zeid, 5, in their home in Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, in Gaza city.
Media sources in Gaza said the soldiers killed three Palestinians and injured at least one, in an Israeli airstrike in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
They added that the Israeli missiles targeted Palestinians and buildings in one of the alleys of the refugee camp; the two slain Palestinians, and the injured, were moved to the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital.
In addition, Palestinian medics and rescue teams found the corpse of one Palestinian under the rubble of a building in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
Two Palestinians were killed in the Israeli strikes on the building, and the third is the one whose corpse was found today.
In Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the soldiers killed an elderly Palestinian man, and a child, when the army fired missiles into agricultural lands in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Health Ministry in Gaza, Israeli missiles have killed more than 65 Palestinians, including sixteen children and five women, in addition to the injury of more than 365 Palestinians, many of them are in critical conditions.
Two of the slain Palestinians, Sa’id Salem al-Hatto, 65, and his wife, Maysoon, 60, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a car they were in the as-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza city.
The same attack led to the death of Mustafa Mazen Kardiya, 37, Abdul-Salam Mahmoud al-Ghazali, 28, and Nader Mohammad al-Ghazali, 47.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as:
Health Ministry: “56 Palestinians, Including 14 Children, And 5 Women, Killed By Israeli Missiles In Gaza”
The Health Ministry in Gaza said the Israeli bombardment of the coastal region has led to the destruction of homes, residential towers, medical facilities, and other infrastructure, leading to the death of 56 Palestinians, including 14 children and five women, in addition to the injury of at least 335 Palestinians, some in a critical condition.
The army fired missiles into a home in the Sabra neighborhood, in the center of Gaza city, killing five Palestinians, including one woman, and injuring six others who were rushed to the Shifa Medical center, in the western part of the city.
The army also fires missiles into a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza city, causing several casualties.
In addition, the army fired a missile at a motorcycle, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and injuring three, including one who is in a critical condition.
Another Palestinian was also killed in an Israeli strike in the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city.
The army also fired one missile at a civilian car in the Bani Sohelia neighborhood, in Khan Younis, killing two Palestinians and wounding one, while an Israeli drone fired a missile at a motorcycle, east of Khan Younis, causing one injury.
An elderly man and a child were also killed by Israeli missiles targeting their farmland in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Two Palestinians were killed, and several others were injured, some seriously, when the army fired a missile at a car in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
Israeli navy ships fired missiles towards the Gaza beach, south of Gaza city, while the army also fired missiles into a building east of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Gaza: Hundreds of homes and buildings destroyed or damaged
The government press office in Gaza said that the Israeli aggression against Gaza, which started on Monday, resulted in great financial losses and extensive destruction to infrastructure, homes and services.
According to statistics released by the press office, over 500 houses, apartment complexes, residential buildings sustained total or partial destruction and another 1,000 housing units were moderately or slightly damaged during the ongoing Israeli aggression.
Two large apartment complexes were reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes. One of those destroyed buildings contained offices belonging to 12 media outlets.
The aerial attacks on Gaza also destroyed 52 government buildings, including security and service facilities.
Furthermore, seven schools, a number of primary health care clinics, the water desalination plant in northern Gaza sustained complete destruction or different levels of damage.
Warplanes also destroyed animal farms, cultivated swaths of land, wells, irrigation networks, paved roads and different infrastructure such as electricity distribution transformers, and water and sanitation networks.
Over 50 civilian vehicles were either partially or completely destroyed in the aggression.
Violent confrontations erupt in various Palestinian cities
The intensity of the confrontations in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem escalated during the last 48 hours and the Israeli press talk about the loss of control over the situation.
The Israeli Maariv newspaper published on its front page on Wednesday morning the headline "The State Is Burning".
The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, launched on Tuesday night a major missile strike against Tel Aviv and its environs with 130 heavy missiles. This came in response to the Israeli occupation warplanes' targeting of civilian towers in Gaza.
The Qassam Brigades also targeted an Israeli military jeep with a guided missile in the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli officer was killed and two others were critically wounded, according to the Hebrew newspaper Yediot Aharonot.
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) announced that it intercepted a drone coming from the Gaza Strip towards the settlements near Gaza.
In Occupied Jerusalem, eyewitness said that the local youths opened fire on the Israeli policemen who stormed the Qalandia refugee camp.
In the West Bank, IOF launched a campaign of arrests and 46 citizens were rounded up.
In Jenin, local sources said that IOF raided the city and several youths wearing masks opened fire at the IOF soldiers and clashed with them before they withdrew.
In al-Khalil, Al-Fawwar refugee camp witnessed violent confrontations between citizens and IOF soldiers. The young man Hussein Atteya Al-Titi, 26, was killed while others were wounded.
In Lod city, violent clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israelis on Tuesday, in what was described by Mayor Yair Revivo, as “civil war between Arabs and Jews."
After the continuous Palestinian protests, the Israeli authorities lost complete control over the city and declared a state of emergency at dawn Wednesday for the first time since 1966.
For his part, Fathi Al-Qarawi, Hamas MP in Tulkarem, confirmed that the public actions in Palestine express a strong, violent and difficult reaction after the Israeli crimes in Al-Aqsa Mosque and Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem and the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for 15 years ago.
The President of the UN Security Council, the Chinese ambassador, Zhang Jun, announced that the council will hold a second emergency session on Wednesday regarding the situation in East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation continues its aggression on the Gaza Strip for the third consecutive day. The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll had risen to 53 martyrs, including 13 children, 3 women, and 320 injuries.
Update: In a recent airstrike at night, Wednesday, the Israeli missiles killed two children, identified as Mariam Mohammad Odah at-Tilbani, 3, and her brother Zeid, 5, in their home in Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, in Gaza city.
Media sources in Gaza said the soldiers killed three Palestinians and injured at least one, in an Israeli airstrike in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
They added that the Israeli missiles targeted Palestinians and buildings in one of the alleys of the refugee camp; the two slain Palestinians, and the injured, were moved to the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital.
In addition, Palestinian medics and rescue teams found the corpse of one Palestinian under the rubble of a building in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
Two Palestinians were killed in the Israeli strikes on the building, and the third is the one whose corpse was found today.
In Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the soldiers killed an elderly Palestinian man, and a child, when the army fired missiles into agricultural lands in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Health Ministry in Gaza, Israeli missiles have killed more than 65 Palestinians, including sixteen children and five women, in addition to the injury of more than 365 Palestinians, many of them are in critical conditions.
Two of the slain Palestinians, Sa’id Salem al-Hatto, 65, and his wife, Maysoon, 60, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a car they were in the as-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza city.
The same attack led to the death of Mustafa Mazen Kardiya, 37, Abdul-Salam Mahmoud al-Ghazali, 28, and Nader Mohammad al-Ghazali, 47.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as:
- Mariam Mohammad Odah at-Tilbani, 3, Gaza city.
- Zeid Mohammad Odah at-Tilbani, 5, Gaza city.
- Mohammad Ahmad Abu Amsha, 40, Beit Hanoun.
- Ahmad Walid at-Talla’ al-Omar, 30, Nusseirat.
- Hamza Nasser, 11, Gaza city.
- Sa’id Hashem’s al-Hatto, 65, Gaza city.
- Maisoon Zaki Hashed al-Hatto, 60, Gaza city. (Sa’id’s wife)
- Jamal Mohammad Sa’id Zibda, 65, Gaza city.
- Bassel Abdul-Karim Issa, Gaza city.
- Awad Nabil Abu Salmiya, 34. Gaza city.
- Abdul-Salam Mahmoud al-Ghazali, 29, Gaza city.
- Nader Mohammad Nabeeh al-Ghazali, 47, Gaza city.
- Mustafa Mazen Salem Kardiya, 32, Gaza city.
- Mansour Yousef Hasan el-Dremle, 67, Gaza city.
- Mahmoud Ahmad Abu Amer, 38, Khan Younis.
- Majed Abed-Rabbo Mahmoud Abu Sa’ada, 58, Khan Younis.
- Hadeel Khaled Arafa al-Omar, 27, Khan Younis.
- Miami Abdullah Arafa al-Omar, 49, Khan Younis.
- Mahmoud Kamil Kalousa, 29, Khan Younis.
- Bashar Ahmad Sammour, 17, Khan Younis.
Health Ministry: “56 Palestinians, Including 14 Children, And 5 Women, Killed By Israeli Missiles In Gaza”
The Health Ministry in Gaza said the Israeli bombardment of the coastal region has led to the destruction of homes, residential towers, medical facilities, and other infrastructure, leading to the death of 56 Palestinians, including 14 children and five women, in addition to the injury of at least 335 Palestinians, some in a critical condition.
The army fired missiles into a home in the Sabra neighborhood, in the center of Gaza city, killing five Palestinians, including one woman, and injuring six others who were rushed to the Shifa Medical center, in the western part of the city.
The army also fires missiles into a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza city, causing several casualties.
In addition, the army fired a missile at a motorcycle, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and injuring three, including one who is in a critical condition.
Another Palestinian was also killed in an Israeli strike in the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city.
The army also fired one missile at a civilian car in the Bani Sohelia neighborhood, in Khan Younis, killing two Palestinians and wounding one, while an Israeli drone fired a missile at a motorcycle, east of Khan Younis, causing one injury.
An elderly man and a child were also killed by Israeli missiles targeting their farmland in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Two Palestinians were killed, and several others were injured, some seriously, when the army fired a missile at a car in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
Israeli navy ships fired missiles towards the Gaza beach, south of Gaza city, while the army also fired missiles into a building east of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Gaza: Hundreds of homes and buildings destroyed or damaged
The government press office in Gaza said that the Israeli aggression against Gaza, which started on Monday, resulted in great financial losses and extensive destruction to infrastructure, homes and services.
According to statistics released by the press office, over 500 houses, apartment complexes, residential buildings sustained total or partial destruction and another 1,000 housing units were moderately or slightly damaged during the ongoing Israeli aggression.
Two large apartment complexes were reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes. One of those destroyed buildings contained offices belonging to 12 media outlets.
The aerial attacks on Gaza also destroyed 52 government buildings, including security and service facilities.
Furthermore, seven schools, a number of primary health care clinics, the water desalination plant in northern Gaza sustained complete destruction or different levels of damage.
Warplanes also destroyed animal farms, cultivated swaths of land, wells, irrigation networks, paved roads and different infrastructure such as electricity distribution transformers, and water and sanitation networks.
Over 50 civilian vehicles were either partially or completely destroyed in the aggression.
Violent confrontations erupt in various Palestinian cities
The intensity of the confrontations in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem escalated during the last 48 hours and the Israeli press talk about the loss of control over the situation.
The Israeli Maariv newspaper published on its front page on Wednesday morning the headline "The State Is Burning".
The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, launched on Tuesday night a major missile strike against Tel Aviv and its environs with 130 heavy missiles. This came in response to the Israeli occupation warplanes' targeting of civilian towers in Gaza.
The Qassam Brigades also targeted an Israeli military jeep with a guided missile in the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli officer was killed and two others were critically wounded, according to the Hebrew newspaper Yediot Aharonot.
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) announced that it intercepted a drone coming from the Gaza Strip towards the settlements near Gaza.
In Occupied Jerusalem, eyewitness said that the local youths opened fire on the Israeli policemen who stormed the Qalandia refugee camp.
In the West Bank, IOF launched a campaign of arrests and 46 citizens were rounded up.
In Jenin, local sources said that IOF raided the city and several youths wearing masks opened fire at the IOF soldiers and clashed with them before they withdrew.
In al-Khalil, Al-Fawwar refugee camp witnessed violent confrontations between citizens and IOF soldiers. The young man Hussein Atteya Al-Titi, 26, was killed while others were wounded.
In Lod city, violent clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israelis on Tuesday, in what was described by Mayor Yair Revivo, as “civil war between Arabs and Jews."
After the continuous Palestinian protests, the Israeli authorities lost complete control over the city and declared a state of emergency at dawn Wednesday for the first time since 1966.
For his part, Fathi Al-Qarawi, Hamas MP in Tulkarem, confirmed that the public actions in Palestine express a strong, violent and difficult reaction after the Israeli crimes in Al-Aqsa Mosque and Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem and the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for 15 years ago.
The President of the UN Security Council, the Chinese ambassador, Zhang Jun, announced that the council will hold a second emergency session on Wednesday regarding the situation in East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation continues its aggression on the Gaza Strip for the third consecutive day. The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll had risen to 53 martyrs, including 13 children, 3 women, and 320 injuries.
Two Palestinian children and one woman were killed at dawn Wednesday during the ongoing Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip. video
According to local sources, an Israeli warplane bombed at around 2 o’clock in the morning an apartment in a building in Tel al-Hawa area in the west of Gaza City, killing two kids and one woman.
The health ministry in Gaza confirmed the death of three victims in an Israeli aerial attack on an apartment in Tel al-Hawa, adding that their bodies were evacuated to al-Shifa Hospital. video
Other dawn air raids also reduced two homes to rubble in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza. Four civilians suffered injuries in the bombed area.
Later in the morning, a civilian was killed when another airstrike bombed a car near a gas station in Jabalia in northern Gaza. However, medical sources talked about the death of four civilians when a warplane bombed the car they were aboard in northern Gaza.
Two others were reportedly injured when a warplane targeted a group of civilians near Hammuda Institute in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
A new spate of Israeli aerial attacks during dawn and morning hours also destroyed other civilian homes, cars, police and security headquarters, an apartment complex known as al-Jawhara (containing media offices) and other structures.
Meanwhile, Israeli gunboats bombed at 04:07 am the northwestern beach of Gaza.
There was no confirmed news about other casualties in those renewed attacks on Gaza.
In retaliation to such ongoing Israeli aggression, the Palestinian resistance, spearheaded by al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, fired in a timely manner dozens of rockets and projectiles at Israeli military targets, settlements and cities, including Tel Aviv and Beersheba.
According to local sources, an Israeli warplane bombed at around 2 o’clock in the morning an apartment in a building in Tel al-Hawa area in the west of Gaza City, killing two kids and one woman.
The health ministry in Gaza confirmed the death of three victims in an Israeli aerial attack on an apartment in Tel al-Hawa, adding that their bodies were evacuated to al-Shifa Hospital. video
Other dawn air raids also reduced two homes to rubble in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza. Four civilians suffered injuries in the bombed area.
Later in the morning, a civilian was killed when another airstrike bombed a car near a gas station in Jabalia in northern Gaza. However, medical sources talked about the death of four civilians when a warplane bombed the car they were aboard in northern Gaza.
Two others were reportedly injured when a warplane targeted a group of civilians near Hammuda Institute in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
A new spate of Israeli aerial attacks during dawn and morning hours also destroyed other civilian homes, cars, police and security headquarters, an apartment complex known as al-Jawhara (containing media offices) and other structures.
Meanwhile, Israeli gunboats bombed at 04:07 am the northwestern beach of Gaza.
There was no confirmed news about other casualties in those renewed attacks on Gaza.
In retaliation to such ongoing Israeli aggression, the Palestinian resistance, spearheaded by al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, fired in a timely manner dozens of rockets and projectiles at Israeli military targets, settlements and cities, including Tel Aviv and Beersheba.
After Israeli forces pounded the Gaza Strip with missiles for two straight days, killing at least 35 Palestinians including 12 children, and refusing to respond to Palestinian demands for a withdrawal and a ceasefire, Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip launched a barrage of rockets across the border into Israel, killing five Israelis, including a teenage girl and her father.
In addition, a 50-year old Israeli woman was killed in Rishon Lezion, just south of Tel Aviv. Rocket sirens sounded throughout the night in Israel’s southern towns and cities, and the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv was briefly shut down. 26 Israelis were reportedly injured – most with minor injuries. video video
The rockets were fired in the early morning hours on Wednesday, as Gaza’s hospitals were besieged with hundreds of wounded Palestinians, many of them children, who suffered traumatic and severe injuries from the numerous Israeli missile strikes into crowded Palestinian neighborhoods throughout Gaza on Monday and Tuesday.
In addition to bombing Palestinian neighborhoods for two straight days, the Israeli military called up 5,000 reservists and had them stationed at the border with Gaza to threaten the Gaza Strip with a possible ground invasion.
The Palestinian resistance responded to this violent aggression with rocket fire directed toward Tel Aviv. This marks the longest-range rockets that have been fired by the Palestinian resistance to date. Other rockets fired in the past have reached as far as the coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon (formerly the Palestinian town of Azkalan), but had not had the range or capacity to reach the Israeli capital Tel Aviv (built on the former Palestinian town of Yaffa) before.
Israelis in the cities of Sderot, Holon and Ashkelon rushed to shelters and many stayed there overnight to try to avoid the impact of Palestinian resistance rocket fire.
Israeli media reported that at 8:45 A.M. on Wednesday, Israeli forces intercepted a drone crossing from Gaza into Israel.
The teen girl and her father who were killed by a Palestinian resistance rocket, Nadine and Khalil Awaad, were themselves Palestinian – with Israeli citizenship. But their town, Dhamas near Lod, being a mainly Palestinian village, was never provided bomb shelters like the Jewish Israeli towns were provided by the government. In fact, their village, Dhamas, was not recognized by Israeli authorities, and so lacks basic services and is under threat of demolition by the Israeli government. One of their relatives, Ismail Arafat, lives there as well and has been part of leading the struggle for recognition of the village.
The Israeli news agency Ha’aretz quoted Ismail Arafat as saying, “We have nowhere to go. We don’t have a bomb shelter here for everyone. For the Thai [migrant] workers they built shelters, but we were not allowed because we are not humans. Nadine and Khalil were in the middle of breakfast before fasting [for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan]. It seems that he opened the door and that’s how he was hit.”
In addition, a 50-year old Israeli woman was killed in Rishon Lezion, just south of Tel Aviv. Rocket sirens sounded throughout the night in Israel’s southern towns and cities, and the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv was briefly shut down. 26 Israelis were reportedly injured – most with minor injuries. video video
The rockets were fired in the early morning hours on Wednesday, as Gaza’s hospitals were besieged with hundreds of wounded Palestinians, many of them children, who suffered traumatic and severe injuries from the numerous Israeli missile strikes into crowded Palestinian neighborhoods throughout Gaza on Monday and Tuesday.
In addition to bombing Palestinian neighborhoods for two straight days, the Israeli military called up 5,000 reservists and had them stationed at the border with Gaza to threaten the Gaza Strip with a possible ground invasion.
The Palestinian resistance responded to this violent aggression with rocket fire directed toward Tel Aviv. This marks the longest-range rockets that have been fired by the Palestinian resistance to date. Other rockets fired in the past have reached as far as the coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon (formerly the Palestinian town of Azkalan), but had not had the range or capacity to reach the Israeli capital Tel Aviv (built on the former Palestinian town of Yaffa) before.
Israelis in the cities of Sderot, Holon and Ashkelon rushed to shelters and many stayed there overnight to try to avoid the impact of Palestinian resistance rocket fire.
Israeli media reported that at 8:45 A.M. on Wednesday, Israeli forces intercepted a drone crossing from Gaza into Israel.
The teen girl and her father who were killed by a Palestinian resistance rocket, Nadine and Khalil Awaad, were themselves Palestinian – with Israeli citizenship. But their town, Dhamas near Lod, being a mainly Palestinian village, was never provided bomb shelters like the Jewish Israeli towns were provided by the government. In fact, their village, Dhamas, was not recognized by Israeli authorities, and so lacks basic services and is under threat of demolition by the Israeli government. One of their relatives, Ismail Arafat, lives there as well and has been part of leading the struggle for recognition of the village.
The Israeli news agency Ha’aretz quoted Ismail Arafat as saying, “We have nowhere to go. We don’t have a bomb shelter here for everyone. For the Thai [migrant] workers they built shelters, but we were not allowed because we are not humans. Nadine and Khalil were in the middle of breakfast before fasting [for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan]. It seems that he opened the door and that’s how he was hit.”
Israeli warplanes launched around 100 raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning destroying all police stations and a residential tower. video
The raids, the most violent since the aggression on the Strip started two days ago, blasted all police stations in addition to a number of resistance sites. video
Iyad al-Buzm, the interior ministry spokesman in Gaza, said in a terse statement that the series of Israeli air raids levelled all police quarters in the beleaguered enclave.
Meanwhile, the PIC reporter said that Israeli warplanes also destroyed an 8-storey residential building at an early hour on Wednesday morning. They had destroyed another one on Tuesday night. video video
He said that the 14-story Hanadi Tower was reduced to rubble in a raid on Tuesday night while Jawhara Tower was targeted on Wednesday morning with seven missiles destroying a large part of it. video
Jawhara Tower houses a number of press offices and Palestinian, Arab and international news agencies.
The raids, the most violent since the aggression on the Strip started two days ago, blasted all police stations in addition to a number of resistance sites. video
Iyad al-Buzm, the interior ministry spokesman in Gaza, said in a terse statement that the series of Israeli air raids levelled all police quarters in the beleaguered enclave.
Meanwhile, the PIC reporter said that Israeli warplanes also destroyed an 8-storey residential building at an early hour on Wednesday morning. They had destroyed another one on Tuesday night. video video
He said that the 14-story Hanadi Tower was reduced to rubble in a raid on Tuesday night while Jawhara Tower was targeted on Wednesday morning with seven missiles destroying a large part of it. video
Jawhara Tower houses a number of press offices and Palestinian, Arab and international news agencies.
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