Israeli warplanes pounded targets in the Gaza Strip today as a major campaign to stop volleys of Palestinian rocket fire entered its second day, leaving 28 people dead, including many children, and more than 100 wounded. A strike on a home in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza, claimed the lives of a commander of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, his parents, a woman and two children, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Another strike early this morning on the southern city of Rafah killed a young man. The deaths brought to 28 the number of fatalities since the launch of Israel's ‘Operation Protective Edge’ early yesterday, with the Jewish state not ruling out a ground operation to stop the rocket attacks.
Israel has launched the offensive on Tuesday in the Hamas-controlled Gaza to quell incessant rockets, projectiles and mortars fired from there into Israel. Hamas armed wing al-Qassam Brigades has, for the first time ever, claimed responsibility for launching long-range rockets that hit Israeli towns. During the day Israel staged multiple air strikes on the Gaza Strip, which took the lives of 24 people and also left more than 100 wounded. Hamas hit back with rocket fire on Israel's major population centres in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in the most serious flare-up over Gaza since November 2012.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday night accused Israel of rejecting a truce with the Palestinians to end the tension in the Gaza Strip.
"I contacted the Palestinian factions in Gaza and they want to reach calm, but Israel rejects reaching calm," Xinhua quoted Abbas in a televised speech.
Abbas assured that he will go to the international agencies "to stop the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people", adding that "the unity government will do all its best to help the Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem".
"It is time that the international community bears its responsibility toward the Israeli aggression on our people," Abbas said in his speech.
source : abplive.in
Israel has launched the offensive on Tuesday in the Hamas-controlled Gaza to quell incessant rockets, projectiles and mortars fired from there into Israel. Hamas armed wing al-Qassam Brigades has, for the first time ever, claimed responsibility for launching long-range rockets that hit Israeli towns. During the day Israel staged multiple air strikes on the Gaza Strip, which took the lives of 24 people and also left more than 100 wounded. Hamas hit back with rocket fire on Israel's major population centres in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in the most serious flare-up over Gaza since November 2012.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday night accused Israel of rejecting a truce with the Palestinians to end the tension in the Gaza Strip.
"I contacted the Palestinian factions in Gaza and they want to reach calm, but Israel rejects reaching calm," Xinhua quoted Abbas in a televised speech.
Abbas assured that he will go to the international agencies "to stop the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people", adding that "the unity government will do all its best to help the Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem".
"It is time that the international community bears its responsibility toward the Israeli aggression on our people," Abbas said in his speech.
source : abplive.in
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