Army Carries Out 4 Airstrikes Targeting Gaza

Monday October 29, 2012 13:06 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

The Israeli Air Force carried out, late on Sunday evening, at least four airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip causing excessive damage; one injury was reported.

File - Gaza Bombardment, Palinfo

Local sources reported that the army fired a missile at a civilian home that belongs to Al-Boheiry family north east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, leading to excessive damage but no injuries.

Later on, the army fired a missile into a land located near the Cars Market, In Az-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, causing excessive damage but no injuries.

The army also fired missiles into two training centers that belong to the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.

Furthermore, Medical sources reported that one resident was wounded, on Monday morning, after being hit by fragments of a missile fired by the Israeli Air Force into an agricultural land in Al-Karama area, northwest of Gaza City.

On Sunday at dawn, the army assassinated Suleiman Al-Qarra, 27, a member of the Al-Qassam Brigades, and wounded another resident, in an air strike that took place as fighters clashed with soldiers invading an area east of Khan Younis.

Israeli soldiers killed, over the last week, nine Palestinians, and wounded at least 14 others, some seriously, in a series of air strike and bombardment targeting the coastal region.

In related news, the Al-Qassam Brigades fired, on Monday at dawn, several mortars into an Israeli military post across the border with Gaza.

The Brigades issued a press release stating that the firing of the shells comes in retaliation to the ongoing Israeli military escalation against the coastal region.

Israeli TV, Channel 2, reported on its webpage that eight missiles were fired from Gaza, on Monday at dawn, and landed in open areas in Eshkol leading to no damages of injuries.

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