Gaza: Its not something news that like
before many crucial incidents against Palestinians an Israeli air strike on a
Hamas target in the Gaza Strip on Sunday brought down a nearby house killing a
Palestinian woman and her daughter, hospital officials said, as a wave of
violence in the region triggered fears of wider escalation.
The
Israeli military said in a statement its air force had targeted two weapons
sites belonging to Hamas, the Islamist militant group which controls Gaza, in
response to the launching of two rockets into Israel on Saturday and Friday.
Witnesses
said the powerful explosion at one of the Hamas camps in Gaza City caused a
nearby house to collapse while its inhabitants were sleeping inside.
Gaza
Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said the woman killed was aged 30 and
pregnant, her daughter was three. A five-year-old boy and a man were wounded,
he added.
No group
claimed responsibility for launching the rockets, one of which was intercepted
near the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon. The other hit an open area, causing
no casualties. The Israeli military said it held Hamas responsible for any
attacks from Gaza.
In 12
days of bloodshed, four Israelis and 22 Palestinians, many of whom had carried
out knife attacks, have been killed in Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank, Gaza
and Israeli cities. This has raised concerns that a new Palestinian uprising
may be brewing.
Palestinians
have been angered by events at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old
City and fear Israel wants to change the religious status quo at Islam's third
holiest shrine, revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the
Temple Mount. Israel has said it has no intention to do so.
The
almost daily Palestinian knife attacks and clashes between Israeli soldiers and
stone-throwing Palestinians are not at the levels of past Palestinian uprisings,
but the rapid escalation has triggered talk of a third "intifada".
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