GAZA, Palestine, Nov 14 (NNN-MA’AN) – Israeli forces, after having killed a top Islamic Jihad commander in an air raid on his home in Gaza City, unleashed a new spiral of violence.
Israel launched dozens of air raids on Gaza. So far, 32 Palestinians have been killed in the bombardment, according to health officials and medics.
Six members of a Palestinian family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Thursday (today),
including a 7-year-old boy and two other minors, all of them civilians, medical officials and residents said, bringing the death toll in the territory from a 48-hour surge in fighting to 32.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the predawn incident in Deir al-Balah.
More than 80 people have also been injured since the fighting began early on Tuesday, the ministry added.
Officials in Gaza said, more than 50 air raids and 21 artillery attacks targeted Palestinian homes, agricultural lands, poultry and vegetable farms, as well as, positions belonging to the “resistance.”
The enclave’s information ministry put the total number of housing units damaged at 48 – some of which were “totally destroyed.”– NNN-MA’AN
