Saturday, February 4, 2012

Two wounded in Israeli air strike in Gaza

gulftoday.ae

GAZA CITY: Two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were wounded by Israeli air-strikes early Friday morning, Palestinians said, only hours a visit of the UN chief to the Hamas-controlled territory.

According to a spokesman for Gaza emergency services, a three-and-a-half-year-old girl was seriously wounded by an air strike at a home in the northern Gaza Strip town Beit Lahiya, which also left a man moderately wounded.

Five other attacks in the central and southern Gaza Strip targeted tunnels and fields, as well as another house in Jablais in the northern Strip.

According to Palestinian sources, the targets included a tunnel east of Rafah, a building in Rafah and a building east of southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, as well as a building in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

The Israeli military confirmed the attacks, which “targeted two weapon storing facilities in the northern Gaza Strip, three terror tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip and a weapon manufacturing facility in the central Gaza Strip,” a statement read. “Direct hits were confirmed as well as secondary explosions at several targets.”

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