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18 Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes, Including Elderly, Children, Since Friday

March 11, 2012

Israeli raids kill child, newlywed youth

[ 11/03/2012 - 10:14 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Israeli warplanes continued their killing streak in Gaza on Sunday and killed a Palestinian fighter at dawn only two days after his wedding and a 12-year-old child.

The higher committee for ambulance and emergency in Gaza said in a statement that the child Ayub Asaliya was killed in an Israeli raid on Sunday morning to the east of Jabalia in northern Gaza, adding that another man was injured in the raid by an Israeli drone.

A resistance fighter was killed at the early dawn hours in Zaitun suburb east of Gaza city.

Medical sources told the PIC that the body of Ahmed Salem was scattered into pieces in the bombing and medical teams could only retrieve his body three and a half hours after his death while two others were wounded.

The armed wing of the popular resistance committees said that Salem was one of its cadres, adding that an Israeli drone plane fired a missile at his position killing him instantly and injuring two others.

The PIC reporter noted that Salem was one of the newlywed 500 couples in the mass wedding organized in Gaza on Thursday.

The armed wing said that an earlier Israeli raid targeted its fighters to the east of Beit Hanun, north of the Gaza Strip, at a late hour on Saturday and that one of them was slightly wounded while the others escaped unharmed.

The Israeli raids killed 17 Palestinians since Friday and wounded more than 30 others.

Israeli raid kills an old man

[ 11/03/2012 - 04:32 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

A 60-year-old Palestinian man was killed in downtown Gaza city in an Israeli air raid at noon Sunday, local sources told the PIC.

They said that Adel Isy was the guard of a Wahidi family field that was the target of an Israeli raid.

A Palestinian child and a newlywed youth were killed earlier Sunday in two separate Israeli raids that wounded four other Palestinians.

The latest victim brought to 18 the number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli raids on the Strip that started on Friday.

Woman, child injured in fresh Israeli raid

[ 11/03/2012 - 04:56 PM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

A fresh Israel air raid near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Sunday evening wounded a child and a woman, local sources said.

They told the PIC reporter that an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired a missile at Qudaih street in Abassan Al-Kabira east of Khan Younis, which fell near a house and injured the woman and the child.

The sources said that the explosion damaged the house and spread fears in the region to which ambulance teams rushed to evacuate the casualties.

IOF soldiers kill two more Palestinians, fire at funeral

[ 10/03/2012 - 04:57 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed two more Palestinians in fresh raids on Gaza and Rafah on Saturday afternoon and fired at a funeral of a number of those killed in yesterday’s raids.

The higher committee for emergency and ambulance services said in a statement that four citizens were wounded in the same raids.

IOF soldiers stationed to the east of Gaza Strip fired at the funeral procession of seven martyrs who were killed in yesterday raids and wounded four participants, the PIC reporter said.

The raids on Saturday thus increased the number of those killed to 16 since Friday while more than 30 others were wounded.

Haniya: Egypt exerting big efforts to end the Israeli aggression

[ 11/03/2012 - 05:03 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Palestinian premier in Gaza Strip said on Sunday that Egypt was exerting big efforts to halt the Israeli aggression on the enclave that claimed the lives of 18 Palestinians so far.

He said in a statement that the “Egyptian brothers” were working round the clock to end the aggression.

Haniya said that all Palestinian factions reflected a positive position and displayed a responsible spirit.

The premier said that the Palestinian people would not be weakened or demoralized.

Gaza power station shuts down

[ 11/03/2012 - 10:33 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The sole electricity generation station in Gaza came to a halt on Saturday night for the third time in less than a month after it ran out of fuel.

The energy and natural resources authority in Gaza announced in a statement that the station used lately to operate only one of its four turbines due to fuel shortage.

It noted that the shutdown coincides with the Israeli military escalation against the Strip, which further complicated the situation in Gaza and doubled the suffering of its population.

The authority appealed to officials and concerned parties to expedite supplying the station with enough fuel through official channels to guarantee its uninterrupted re-operation so as to alleviate the people’s suffering.