| Al Jazeera, Jan 2, 2010 | |||
At least four people, including a child, have been wounded when Israeli war jets and tanks struck several targets in eastern and southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medical sources have said. Israeli F16 jets fired two missiles and tanks shot two shells early on Saturday that landed on empty areas east and northeast of Gaza City, witnesses said. Local ambulances took four people from eastern Gaza for medical treatment at Gaza hospitals, according to medical sources. The four were lightly injured. Residents also said Israeli warplanes carried out a fifth raid on a post belonging to the Hamas movement in the southeast of the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported. An Israeli army spokesman confirmed aircraft had attacked Gaza, but gave no further details. The Israeli strikes came hours after fighters from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) fired two Russian-made Grad missiles on Thursday night from Israeli Radio reported on Friday that two Grad missiles landed at an open area The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) also claimed responsibility on Friday for firing four mortar shells at Israeli army vehicles near the border between southeast Gaza and Israel. No injuries or damages were reported. Continued onslaught Saturday’s Israeli strikes marked the latest violence along Gaza’s border since the war it launched on Gaza in December, 2008. More than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day war. A further 100,000 Gazans were left homeless after the onslaught. In the words of the UN’s Goldstone report, that offensive was “directed by Israel at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an overall policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population”. Israel continues to maintain a siege on Gaza. It maintains a tight control over Gaza’s borders, air space and territorial waters, the population registry, and movement between Gaza and the West Bank. |
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Israeli jets and tanks strike Gaza
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