In one of the deadliest days of violence since Israel’s offensive in Gaza began, at least 113 Palestinians were killed as the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) intensified their aerial bombing campaign, the BBC reported. Ten IDF soldiers were also killed.
The home of a Hamas leader, a port, and Gaza’s only power plant were among the destroyed buildings. Reportedly, UN staffers were killed as well.
The intensified bombardment was part of a broader campaign to put a “gradual increase in the pressure” on the Hamas government, an IDF spokesman said. The house of Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader who is now in hiding, was the target of an Israeli airstrike. The house was unoccupied.
“The destruction of stones will not break our will and we will continue our resistance until we gain freedom,” he was quoted as saying on a Hamas website afterwards. A UNRWA spokesman tweeted that UN officials were also among the people killed.
Meanwhile, a senior official from the West Bank declared a truce after the shelling.
“After extensive calls and consultations with the brothers in Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian leadership announces on behalf of everyone the willingness for a ceasefire and humanitarian truce for 24 hours,” Yasser Abed Rabbo of the Palestine Liberation Organization said. While he claimed that he also spoke for Hamas, the Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the offer was “not serious”, the Associated Press reported.
SHELLING KILLS MANY:
A shelling shortly after 5:30 am (0230 GMT) killed 20 people at a UN school being used as a shelter for those displaced by the war, medics said, without giving immediate details. A UN official confirmed the shelling, saying it hit a bathroom and two classrooms on the site in Jabalia refugee camp, but gave a lower initial toll of between 13 and 15 dead.
A shelling earlier in the northern Gaza Strip killed an 11-year-old handicapped girl, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said, with a subsequent shelling in the centre of the small coastal territory killing a 16-year-old girl. A strike shortly afterwards in the southern city of Khan Yunis killed nine members of a single family, Qudra said, including one child who could not immediately be identified.
A middle-aged man was killed early in the morning in the southern city of Rafah.
The deaths brought the total Palestinian toll from an Israeli operation to stamp out militant rocket fire to at least 1,262, according to Qudra’s figures. On the Israeli side, militant fire, including cross-border rocket fire, has killed 53 Israeli soldiers in addition to three civilians inside Israel.
It is the ancient lie of Moses
responsible for what this War produces.
And while the World goes on and hopes to stay out of trouble
Al Aqsa gets hit and the mosque ends up in rubble.
It is all fixed and labeled Eastern against Western block
It is really about a pyramid that wants to rise from that Rock
http://www.wavevolution.org
IMRANKHAN HAS SAID NOTHING ABOUT KILLINGS OF PALESTINE- WOMEN CHILDREN BABYS HOSPITAL PATIENTS..
Outspoken is a MNS GOON AND MUPPET!
What’s suffering of gazans got to do IK?
Other than the fact that he married a Jewish woman and had two kids with her. Anyway, IK is still the lesser evil of oakistani politicians. They’re all corrupt!
Moses was the descendent of Abraham. And that land is of the abrahamic trio faiths thus promised and Important to Jews Christians and Muslims. None have claim more than the other. Ultimately the smartest will be those who sacrifice nationalism and embrace the patriotism of their faith alone.
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