Israel Escalates Aggression on Gaza

Rasa - Israeli warplanes raided the former headquarters of the Civil Administration in Northern Gaza, according to local reports.

News ID: 427196

Date: 07 February 2017 - 20:04

RNA - The reports said that the occupation warplanes struck a new position near Waha area in Beit Lahia in Northern Gaza, Al Manar reported.

The Israeli intensive air raids, which injured a Palestinian man, was renew on various areas in Gaza at night.

Israel had earlier reported that a rocket launched from Gaza fell on an open area in Ashkelon settlement, without causing losses.

The Israeli military has carried out a new round of strikes against the Gaza Strip, injuring two more Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave.

Separately, witnesses said at least eight missiles were fired at several locations across the impoverished sliver, one of which struck a farming land in the center of the city of Khan Yunis, located about 25 kilometers south of Gaza City, on Monday evening, Ma’an reported.

Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesman, Ashraf al-Qidra, said two people were injured in the Khan Yunis attack.

Several residential buildings were also damaged as Israeli military aircraft pounded the Eastern Shuja’iyya neighborhood of the Gaza City.

The airstrikes also hit farming lands East of al-Maghazi and al-Bureij refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military frequently targets the Gaza Strip in military strikes. Civilians are the main victims of such attacks.

In early July 2014, Israel waged a war on the Gaza Strip. The 50-day military aggression, which ended on August 26, 2014, killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children.

The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli siege since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standards of living.

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