In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Israeli airstrikes hit the Al Whaidi orchard in Al Nafaq street. The Al Matbouli store for plastic & wood was also hit, and the building has extensive damage after a fire broke out following the airstrike.

Eyewitnesses have reported that 3 houses also caught fire, however, they were evacuated and no injuries have been reported.

25 members of the Hammad family have been injured in the past hour after an Israeli missile hit their home. 17 of the injured are women and children.

Everyone was asleep when their house was hit.

The house which belong to Hammad family has engulfed in flames.

The Palestinian Red Crescent headquarters in Jabalia in northern Gaza sustained severe damage in the attack.

The injured have been brought to the Kamal Awad hospital amid panic scenes.

Other explosions have been reported in Khan Younis,  and 2 civilians have been  injured in an attack in Shejaeyah east of Gaza.

Via Gaza freealnce reporter Yousef Al-Helou.
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The death toll in Gaza over 4 days of sustained attacks from Israel has now reached 26, as  Ghassan Mughrabi died this morning from injuries he received following an airstrike on the Al Zaytoon area.  Ghassan was only 7 years of age.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, several Israeli airstrikes damaged several buildings, many of them catching fire and were destroyed in the resulting blaze.

Late on Monday, 2 Palestinian men were killed. They died in Shejaeyah in Gaza city as Israeli warplanes carried out more air strikes, They have been named as Basam Ejlah, aged 20, and  Mohamamd Daher aged 21.

Also on Monday, a father and daughter were killed in a fresh airstrike near Tal Zaatar School in Northern Gaza. According to local reports, Mohammed Al Husseini 65, and his daughter Faiza Al Husseini 35, were killed instantly after been hit by an Israeli missile.

A motorcycle was attacked early on Monday morning  in Qarara  east of Khan Younis, killing 24-year old Rafat Abu Eid. Meanwhile, Salman Abu Metleg, 24-year old man killed in a drone attack in Abasan east of Khan Younis.  A 15 year old boy has also died from injuries received in an explosion.

2 houses, including a 4-story building was directly hit injuring over 35 family members. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society headquarters in Jabalia sustained severe damage in the same attack.

In 2 seperate Drone attacks on Sunday, a 12 year old boy was killed in Jabalia, and in Gaza city, a 60 year old man also died.

Earlier on Sunday, in the Al Zaytoon area in eastern Gaza. 2 others were injured in continuing airstrikes on Gaza. In the attack, Ahmad Deeb Salem was killed. Only 2 days ago he was married.

Israeli air raids killed at least one person and injured 2 others in Rafah in the south of the Gaza strip earlier on Saturday. Their motorcycle was hit by a missile fired from a drone

The latest deaths came as Israeli drones fired missiles in Khan Younis killing  Mansour Abu Nusaira and Hussein Hamad earlier that morning.

Israeli troops have opened fire at the funeral procession of some of those killed last night. 4 people have been shot and injured at the cemetery.

Last night Israeli warplanes hit the Palestinian legislative council, and 3 people were  killed in this attack…

In an air raid in central Gaza city on Friday night, missiles hit a garage in Yarmouk Street. 4 people have been injured in this attack.

Another aid raid targeted a house in northern Gaza.

A statement from EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the bloc “is following with concern the recent escalation of violence in Gaza and in the south of Israel”.

“I very much deplore the loss of civilian life. It is essential to avoid further escalation and I urge all sides to re-establish calm.”

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the rockets fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip in retaliation to the murders.

Clinton said in a meeting with Opposition leader Tzipi Livni in New York that “Israel has the right to defend itself”

France also called for restraint and a return to calm in a statement issued by foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero.

Paris was “greatly concerned by the new episode of violence in Gaza and southern Israel,” especially as civilians were at risk, the statement said.

“We condemn the firing of rockets and the humanitarian consequences of this violence and deplore the civilian casualties,” it added.

Egypt on Saturday condemned the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to immediately end the air strikes that have claimed the lives of at least 15 Palestinians since Friday.

Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said “Egypt is deeply alarmed” by the Israeli attacks and demands that they immediately stop

On Friday, an Israeli F16 airstrike on a car in the Tal el hawa district resulted in the death of 2 Palestinians, and left one critically injured. One of those murdered was Mahmoud Hanani, who was one of the 1,000 people freed in the recent prisoner swap. Mahmoud was 44 and was the secretary general of the Palestinian Resistance Committee.

Names of the Palestinians killed Gazans so far in the latest attacks:
Zuhair Al-Qaysi, 49 years old and his son in law Mahmoud Hanani 44 years old.
Yahya Dahshan 27,
Mohammad Haraha, 24
Obid Al-Gharabliu, 22
Hazem Qureqi, 22
Shadi Seeqali, 27.
Fayeq Sameer, 28
Motasem Hajjaj, 22
Ahmad Hajjaj, 22
Moahamd Al-Mogari, 25.
Mahmoud Nejam, 22
Moahamamd Al-Ghamri, 26
Hussain Barham, 51
Kamala Nusirah, 21

Mahdi Abu Shawish

Rafat Abu Eid, 24

Salman Abu Metleg , 24

This news is from Yousef Al-Helou, a freelance reporter in Gaza.

Yousef can be contacted on 00970 59969 7254

In the past hour, an Israeli F16 airstrike on a car in the Tal el hawa district resulted in the death of 2 Palestinians, and left one critically injured. One of those murdered was Mahmoud Ahmed Hunein, who was one of the 1,000 people freed in the recent prisoner swap. Mahmoud was 44. The 2nd casuality has been named as Zuhair Qaisi.

The 3 men were travelling in their car when it was hit by the F16 air strike. Such was the force of the explosion, the car was destroyed, and a nearby building caught fire.

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday evening, an area east of the Al-Boreij Refugee Camp, in central Gaza, firing dozens of rounds of live ammunition, while military choppers flew overhead firing flares.

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The motives of the invasion remain unknown as the soldiers just searched the area and withdrew later on; no arrests or injuries were reported.

On Friday at dawn, two Palestinians were wounded after the Israeli Air Force fired missiles in the Car Market area in Gaza; one of them was treated by field medics while the other was moved to a local hospital.

Also on Friday, Israeli troops shot and killed one Palestinian near the central West Bank city of Ramallah during clashes that took place after the Palestinians held a protest against the ongoing settler attacks, and the Friday attack carried out by the soldiers against worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.

In its weekly report for the week of 16 – 22 Feb. 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that 25 civilians were wounded, and 21 were abducted in 74 invasions carried out by the Israeli military into the Palestinian territories.

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Israeli warplanes fired on a Gaza City neighborhood early Friday, lightly injuring two Palestinian fighters.

The airstrike on the Zeitoun neighborhood injured two militants who were evacuated to hospital, emergency services’ spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said. Their identities and affiliations were not immediately identified.

An Israeli army statement said the warplanes hit “two terror activity sites in the northern Gaza Strip…in response to the rockets fired at Israel.”

Three rockets fired from Gaza landed in southern Israel on Thursday evening, and two projectiles early Friday, without causing injuries of damage.

The armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees said in a statement on Friday it had launched projectiles at southern Israel early on Friday.

The Nasser Salah al-Din brigades said they fire was in response to Israel’s violations of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians.

On Sunday, Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip injured six people, including a one-year-old infant.

Ma’an

Two Palestinian civilians were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a metal workshop Saturday night in southern Gaza City, medics and witnesses said.

The witnesses said they heard two explosions as an Israeli army helicopter fired two missiles at a goldsmith shop in a two-storey building in the Zeitoon neighbourhood in southern Gaza City.

Black smoke was seen billowing from the flaming building, where firefighters and rescue crews rushed after the missile strikes.

Medics in Gaza City said that two bystanders were moderately injured and were taken to a hospital.

Security sources in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip said that police and security evacuated all police stations and security headquarters for fear of intensive Israeli retaliation to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants earlier Saturday against southern Israel.

Around noon, three Grad rockets were fired from eastern Gaza and landed near the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheba. No injuries were reported, and no one claimed responsibility for the attack.

Europa online

Israeli gunboats opened fire on Friday evening toward Palestinian fishing boats at sea near Beit Lahiya off the coast of northern Gaza; no injuries were reported.

Mahmud Al-Asi, head of the Tawfiq organization for fishermen, said the gunboats open fire regularly toward the fishing boats, forcing fishermen to head back to shore.

The fishermen have suffered a reduction in earnings due to the navy, he added.

Ma’an 

One Palestinian man was injured on Sunday and two others were reported missing after Egyptian authorities pumped sewage inside a Rafah smuggling tunnel running underneath the border with the Gaza Strip, medics said.

Palestinian medical sources told Ma’an that a tunnel worker was hurt and two others went missing inside the Rafah tunnel as a result of sewage pumped in from the Egyptian side.

Two Palestinians were killed and three others injured on Saturday after a gas canister exploded in a smuggling tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said.

Egyptian security officials said in early September that they were cracking down on the network of tunnels used by smugglers from the coastal enclave.

Medics say over 160 Palestinians have died in the network of underground tunnels since Israel imposed a siege on the Gaza Strip in 2006.

Under Israel’s crippling blockade, the tunnels have provided a lifeline for residents of the coastal enclave.

Egypt’s reopening of the Rafah border eased the impact of the siege for some residents, who were able to leave Gaza freely for the first time in years.

Ma’an

The assault targeted an area in the northeast of Gaza City on Monday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Residential buildings were struck during the offensive, but there are no reports of any casualties so far.

Although Israeli military forces officially withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, they still frequently attack the territory.

The Palestinian Authority will formally submit a request to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for approval of Palestine’s membership in the world body on September 20, during the 66th session of the UN General Assembly.

Press TV

Israeli soldiers stationed in the eastern borders of Gaza strip on Tuesday opened massive fire at Palestinian houses and agricultural lands in Abasan town, eastern Khan younis.

Local sources confirmed that Israeli soldiers stationed inside Srig military site in the east of Abasan town opened massive fire at Palestinian houses for several hours, creating fear and terror among civilians.

Israeli fire also targeted Palestinian farmers during their work, with no injuries reported.

Israeli forces continue to target Palestinian houses and agricultural lands along the eastern and southern borders of Gaza Strip.

Palestine Telegraph

Israeli forces on Sunday detained eight fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, local sources told Ma’an.

Locals said Israeli naval boats surrounded a fishing boat belonging to the Baker family near As-Sudanyeh, north of Gaza City and detained eight people on board.

Those detained were identified as Hassan Khader Baker, his sons Khader, Jafar and Muhammad and their relatives Allam, Suheil and Muhammad.

An Israeli military spokeswoman was not immediately familiar with the arrests.

The sea off Gaza has been mostly off limits since June 2006 when Israel imposed a tight blockade on the territory after militants there snatched Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is still being held.

The blockade was tightened a year later when Hamas seized control of the territory, ousting forces loyal to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority.

Israeli military ships patrol Gaza’s Mediterranean shore, enforcing a 3-mile fishing limit and blockade on the strip.

Ma’an