[ 06/04/2011 - 12:22 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Four Palestinians, including two women, were wounded during Israeli aerial attacks on east of the Gaza after midnight on Wednesday amid ongoing intensive overflights, according to the Palestinian information center (PIC).
The PIC reporter said Israeli warplanes bombed at dawn Sha'af area east of Al-Tuffah neighborhood in the east of Gaza city, and Izbet Abed Rabbo area, east of Jabaliya to the north of Gaza.
He added that a factory for plastics industry owned by the family of Riyadh Hassanein was destroyed during the air raid on Sha'af area in the east.
Spokesman for emergency and ambulance service Adham Abu Salmiya said two Palestinian women, one of them was pregnant, and two men were moderately wounded during the bombing of eastern Gaza and taken to Shifa hospital for treatment.
Pilotless reconnaissance warplanes or drones are still seen overflying Gaza at low altitudes, a security official told the PIC reporter.
He noted these drones seem to be on offensive missions, warning civilians and resistance fighters in Gaza to be more alert to any attack.
Israeli leaders have been threatening for days to wage a new all-out war soon on Gaza as the Palestinian resistance declared their readiness to defend their people and repel any Israeli aggression against the Strip.
Aharonovich threatens new war on Gaza[ 06/04/2011 - 12:01 PM ]
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Israel's minister of internal security Yitzhak Aharonovich has said that his government would not accept missiles from Gaza Strip to threaten the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
He said during a tour of the southern settlement of Sderot on Tuesday that a very painful strike should be directed against the Palestinians, adding that Israel would not remain silent in face of rocket or mortar attacks.
The Israeli occupation forces killed 32 Palestinians in the first quarter of 2011 and wounded 120 mostly women and children.
The minister advised the inhabitants of Sderot to be ready for another round of confrontation with the Palestinians.
[ 06/04/2011 - 02:45 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Ahmed Bahar has called on the United Nations to protect Gaza's children as Israel has boosted aggression on the Strip for the last two weeks killing many civilians including children.
The statements came as hundreds of children marched waving Palestinian flags and chanting calls for children's rights to mark Palestinian Child Day on Tuesday, April 5. Staged by the Gaza ministry of sports, youth and culture, the march began in downtown Gaza and took its trail to the PLC headquarters.
”[The symbolic march] is designed to draw attention to the suffering of Palestinian children and to demand the just rights provided by international conventions and human rights laws,” said Ahmed Moheisin, director general of the ministry's children department.
Bahar, who was present at the event, addressed the need to provide a more secure life to Palestinian children and to lauch more ”ambitious” projects that cater for the ”builders of the future”. He said Palestinian child day is an occassion set to commemorate hope to end all forms of injustice the Palestinian children have suffered during the Israeli aggression.
Gaza minister Mohammed al-Madhoun highlighted a number of projects underway aimed at encouraging children to face the psychological effects of the Israeli aggression.
For their part, the children asked for security and nutrition and end to the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip.
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