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2 Palestinians, 3 Israelis killed following strikes on Israel-Gaza border Israeli, Palestinian civilians killed as Gaza militants & IDF exchange HUNDREDS of rockets
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Two Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed by rocket and aerial strikes following a spate of violence that began last night, according to reports. Both sides have also say civilians have received serious injuries. Almost a dozen Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed as well as scores injured on both sides in an ongoing spate of violence that saw hundreds of rockets launched by Gaza militants and massive air strikes by Israel.
One Israeli was critically injured and later died on Sunday from his wounds after a rocket struck a factory in the southern city of Ashkelon, 50km south of Tel Aviv. At least nine Palestinians, including seven civilians and two militants, have died in the Israeli strikes targeting the Gaza Strip since Saturday, the Gaza Health Ministry said, adding that dozens more have been injured. A pregnant woman and her 14-month-old baby were among those killed.
Another man in Ashkelon died after his car was directly hit by a rocket. Israel said it killed at least eight Palestinian militants, claiming it struck 260 militant targets in the strip, including tunnels, arms workshops and depots. It blamed the deaths of a Palestinian woman and her daughter on a faulty rocket launch by the militants.
Minutes after the attacks were reported, Israel announced that it had struck a group of militants launching rockets from the northern Gaza Strip. It also claimed that a Palestinian man killed in the Gaza Strip on Sunday was a Hamas commander. Ahmed Abed Khudri, whose car was hit by an Israeli air strike, allegedly helped transfer funds from Iran to armed factions in Gaza.
Israel claims that a Palestinian man killed in the Gaza Strip on Sunday was a Hamas commander. Ahmed Abed Khudri, whose car was hit by an Israeli air strike, allegedly helped transfer funds from Iran to armed factions in Gaza. Meanwhile, the Hamas militant group that controls the Gaza Strip as well as another extremist organization called the Islamic Jihad fired as many as 600 rockets and mortar shells targeting the Israeli territory. At least three Israelis died because of the militants’ actions.
One man was critically injured and later died from his wounds on Sunday after a rocket struck a factory in the southern city of Ashkelon, 50km south of Tel Aviv. Another man in Ashkelon died after his car was directly hit by a rocket.
Gaza's Health Ministry said that Sunday's strikes in the city had killed at least two citizens and left two others seriously wounded. The IDF also said that the militants hit a civilian van with an anti-tank missile near Kibbutz Erez, critically injuring the driver, who later died from his injuries. The Palestinian militants claimed it was a military vehicle transporting soldiers that they struck.
The casualties come hours after an Israeli was reportedly killed in Ashkelon after a rocket hit his home. The attack left nine other people wounded. Both sides also said that many civilians were injured during the recent developments. More than 60 Israelis were injured, three of them seriously, as a result of the rocket strikes, local ambulance services said. The Israeli retaliation air strikes resulted in 80 Palestinians suffering various injuries, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
The mediation efforts taken by the UN and Egypt have yielded no results so far as none of the sides appeared to be ready to stop the violence. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue striking Gaza with “massive airstrikes” in response to the militants’ rocket launches.
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