Thursday, 24 February 2011

Israeli warplanes blast Gaza targets

Israeli warplanes blast Gaza targets

[ 24/02/2011 - 10:24 AM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes blasted a number of targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday only hours after artillery shelling that killed a citizen and wounded 16 others.

Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli F-16 warplanes fired at least one missile at a greenhouse north of Khan Younis, destroying it altogether but with no casualties reported.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) later shelled Abu Jarad area south of Gaza city with no casualties reported.

An earlier IOF shelling targeted a group of fighters affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, wounding two of them.

Adel Jundiya, 25, was killed in an IOF shelling on Wednesday morning east of Gaza city while 16 others were injured including one seriously.


Palestinian resistance fighter killed during Israeli attack on east Gaza city

[ 24/02/2011 - 10:29 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian resistance fighter affiliated with the armed wing of Islamic Jihad was proclaimed dead on Wednesday evening after he sustained serious injuries from an Israeli military attack on east of Gaza city.

Islamic Jihad's armed wing, Al-Quds Brigades, vowed in a communiqué yesterday to avenge the death of its fighter.

Spokesman for the ambulance and emergency service Adham Abu Salmiya told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the fighter, Adel Jandiya, was seriously wounded when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bombed a group of citizens east of Gaza city.

Spokesman Abu Salmiya also told the PIC that two other citizens sustained moderate injuries following the death of Jandiya during another attack.

About 11 Palestinian citizens were also wounded, two of them in serious condition, east of Gaza city on the same day at noon during an Israeli artillery attack.

In a separate incident, a little Palestinian girl died and two other sustained moderate injuries after an unknown explosion happened in Khan Younis city, south Gaza.

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