A new bloody year in Gaza, Israeli air raids kill four more Palestinians in Gaza

Thursday January 01, 2009 10:17 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC&Agencies

As the new year began, Israeli air raids continued overnight, attacking several parts of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of four more Palestinians, wounding a number others and devastating more buildings and homes.

Witnesses said that the Israeli attacks targeted the buildings of the Palestinian legislative council, the ministries of education and justice in Gaza city, a house in the city, another house belonging to a Hamas fighter in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, a workshop and a picnic park in Rafah.

Also in Rafah, the Israeli air assaults targeted smuggling tunnels used for bringing essential goods and commodities into the Besieged coastal territory, as well as a clinic.

In the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Almaghazi, an Israeli warplane hit a house just 20 minutes before midnight, shortly before the start of the new year.

Medical sources in Gaza said that the four that were killed died of wounds they sustained during previous Israeli attacks on Gaza, including a woman, a child and two paramedics.

Today, Israeli attacks on Gaza enter their sixth day as the death toll reached approximately 400, and injuries reached almost 2000, including more than 300 critically wounded.

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