- 5 apr 2011
Two Workers Injured in Gaza, 11 West Bankers Arrested as Troops Raid the Freedom Theater
Report: Israel kidnapped over 440 Palestinians last month
Israeli army detains 10 Palestinians overnight
6 more detained from Awarta in Itamar investigation
29 oct 2012, 12:58 , Respect -
Maria 6 apr 2011
Four civilians including women injured during brutal air raids on Gaza
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.
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Medics: 4 wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza
GAZA CITY (AFP) -- Israeli aircraft attacked two targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding four people, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.
They said the targets were a group of militants and a plastics factory, both east of Gaza City.
All of the wounded were at the factory, they added.
A Ma'an correspondent said two of those injured were women, and that one of them was pregnant.
An Israeli military spokeswoman told AFP that aircraft hit "two terror tunnels," a phrase the army uses to refer to tunnels being prepared by Gaza militants to launch cross-border raids.
On Tuesday, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the Gaza border, Israeli army fire killed a man in the north of the strip.
"A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli tank shell near Erez," said Gaza medical official Adham Abu Selmiya, identifying him as 21-year-old Mohammed Ziyad Shalha.
Earlier, witnesses reported seeing Israeli troops firing at two men in the same area who were said to be collecting gravel, in what was understood to be the same incident.
The Israeli army confirmed firing at someone near the border fence, but a spokeswoman mentioned only one person, who she said was armed and had been hit.
"The IDF identified an armed man near the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and fired towards him," she said. "They identified a hit."
The area along the Gaza border has been declared a no-go zone by the Israeli military for fear of attacks, and troops often fire on Palestinians who venture into it.
But residents often risk injury or death to enter the zone in search of gravel, which they can sell to builders.
Later, two mortar rounds were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, but exploded in a field without causing casualties or damage, Israeli media said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said late Tuesday that a projectile or projectiles had fallen inside Israel, but she had no further details.
Such cross-border fire routinely draws retaliatory air strikes from Israel. Gaza's Hamas rulers met Tuesday with representatives of all Palestinian factions to discuss "the situation on the ground", officials told AFP.
The meeting was called a day after a Gazan engineer, who was allegedly kidnapped by Israeli agents from Ukraine in February, was indicted for building rockets for Hamas militants.
Several days earlier, three Hamas militants were killed in an Israeli air strike in what the army called a pre-emptive attack against a cell planning to kidnap Israelis from Egypt's Sinai.
The move prompted vows of revenge, and calls to end a fragile ceasefire on rocket attacks that had been declared by militant groups.
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Maria 6 apr 2011
IAF targets Gaza terror tunnels; 4 injured
Palestinians report four people hurt after air force strike against explosives smuggling tunnels in Strip.
The Israel Air Force struck two terror tunnels in northern Gaza Strip overnight. The IAF confirmed hitting its targets, adding the fighter jets returned from their mission safely.
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said the strike followed recent rocket fire at Israel: Tuesday saw a Qassam rocket fired at the Eshkol Regional Council, causing no harm.
Palestinian sources said that the strike took place in the vicinity of Jabal Rees, a neighborhood east of Gaza City.
According to the Gaza emergency services, four people suffered mild-to-moderate injuries as a result of the strike, including two women, one of whom is allegedly pregnant. All four are being treated at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Palestinian eyewitnesses told Ynet that two blasts followed the strike, one of which in a "plastics factory," where the injuries took place. The second blast, according to the sources, was in an unpopulated area.
The Palestinians also reported multiple drone sightings in the area overnight. According to some reports, the strikes targeted a terrorist cell and an explosives lathe mill.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4052830,00.html
Aharonovich threatens new war on Gaza
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.
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Bahar calls on UN to protect Gaza children amid Israeli aggression
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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Maria 6 apr 2011
Israeli forces raid north Jordan Valley villages
TUBAS (Ma'an) -- Israeli army and police raided villages in northern Jordan Valley near Tubas Wednesday morning, seizing tractors from farmers in the area.
Israeli forces and armored vehicles entered homes in a number of villages in the Tubas district, and captured several tractors from residents, a villager whose tractor was seized told Ma'an.
Local witnesses said Israeli soldiers took the tractors to the nearby Israeli settlement of Mechola.
An Israeli military spokeswomen said "There was activity by the army and police in the area to track vehicles for licenses and permits, and vehicles are being confiscated by police."
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29 oct 2012, 13:00 , Respect -
Maria 6 apr 2011
Israeli warplanes violate Sudanese airspace, strike a car
OCCUPIED JURUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes raided a car off the Sudanese Red Sea harbor of Port Sudan on Tuesday night and killed two men who were inside it, a Hebrew press report said on Wednesday.
Yediot Ahronot quoted foreign sources as saying that an Israeli warplane carried out the raid.
Mohammed Taher, the governor of the Sudanese Red Sea province, said that an unknown warplane blasted a car in the outskirts of Port Sudan, destroying the vehicle and killing its passengers.
He said that the unknown plane came from the Red Sea then returned via the same route at 10 pm local time (7 pm GMT).
A source at Port Sudan harbor told Reuters that he heard the sound of three explosions, and quoted an eyewitness as saying that he saw two burnt bodies one inside the car and the other outside it.
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7 apr 2011
Security sources: Target of Sudan attack Hamas weapons man
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian security officials said that target in what has been alleged to be an Israeli strike on Sudan was the successor to assassinated Hamas official Mahmoud Mabhouh.
Abdul-Latif Ashkar, one of two men killed in a strike on a car in Sudan, is said to have taken over the role of weapons gathering formerly carried out by Mabhouh, who was assassinated by Israeli intelligence officials in a Dubai hotel room last year.
The strike hit the car Tuesday, on Sudan's Red Sea coast near the main port, and on Wednesday, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Karti accused Israel of carrying out the attack.
Karti's charge came as a number of Israeli newspapers spoke of the same thing, with one running the headline "IDF carried out attack on Sudan," but the Israeli military and foreign ministry both declined to comment.
While Sudanese media said both victims were nationals of the country, daily London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Arabiya said one of the victims was a national of an Arab country, and said the man was involved in arms smuggling for Hamas.
Abdul-Latif Ashkar was in his 40s and was a senior member of Hamas military wing. He was born in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and was arrested by Israel during the First Intifada.
He was a founder of Hamas' "aid and logistics department," which coordinated weapons smuggling to the Gaza Strip. It is now known when he arrived in Sudan, or how long he resided there.
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8 apr 2011
Family denies assassination of key Hamas figure in Sudan
GAZA (Ma'an) -- The family of a senior Hamas figure reported killed in a Tuesday Israeli strike in Sudan, on Friday denied his death.
Palestinian security officials said Monday that Abdul Latif Al-Ashqar was the target of the strike.
Tuesday's strike hit a car on Sudan's Red Sea coast near the main port killing two, and on Wednesday, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Karti accused Israel of carrying out the attack.
Arab media quoted 'Israeli sources' saying the assassination was executed by a special unit that entered Sudanese territory from the sea and fired on the car with a ground-to-ground missile.
Al-Ashqar's uncle, senior Hamas figure Ismail Al-Ashqar, told Ma'an that Abdul Latif was well, having been the subject of several Israeli assassination attempts in the past, and been tracked by Israeli forces for many years.
Hamas Deputy Politburo Chief Moussa Abu Marzouq, told the Jerusalem-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that the two "were not Palestinian and had no connection to Hamas."
There were conflicting media reports, with Sudanese media claiming both victims were nationals of the country, while daily London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Arabiya said one of the victims was a national of an Arab country, and said the man was involved in arms smuggling for Hamas.
Israeli newspapers also reported the strike, with one running the headline "IDF carried out attack on Sudan," but the Israeli military and foreign ministry both declined to comment.
Abdul Latif Al-Ashqar, a senior member of Hamas%u2019 military wing, is said to have taken over the role of weapons gathering formerly carried out by Mahmoud Mabhouh, who was assassinated in a Dubai hotel room last year.
In his 40s, Al-Ashqar was born in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and was arrested by Israel during the First Intifada.
He was a founder of Hamas' "aid and logistics department," which coordinated weapons smuggling to the Gaza Strip. It is not known when he arrived in Sudan, or how long he resided there.
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10 apr 2011
Sudan Gov't says it will respond to Israel's violation of its airspace
KHARTOUM, (PIC)-- The Sudanese armed forces said the two Israeli warplanes, which attacked a car in Port Sudan city, used kind of radio interference to hide their entry into the Sudanese airspace, affirming the government would respond to this Israeli violation.
Sudanese defense minister Abdulrahim Hussein stated in a press release that the Sudanese government knows all dimensions of the Israeli attack which happened last Tuesday evening.
Hussein said he discussed with security and military leaders in Port Sudan all measures that should be taken to prevent the recurrence of such violation.
He vowed that the armed forces would protect the red sea coastline despite its length, asserting that his ministry sent immediately after the incident a group of experts to investigate what happened.
"We have been attacked and we are targeted because we raise the banner of Islamic law, but the blood of the two martyrs will not go in vain," the defense minister highlighted.
The minister noted that the government initiated diplomatic moves to respond to this Israeli violation and would confront any Israeli intelligence activities in eastern Sudan.
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Maria 6 apr 2011
Mentally handicapped 4 year old arrested by Israeli forces in Silwan
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Maria 7 apr 2011
1 injured in series of overnight strikes on Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes carried out three bombing missions targeting the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, and a forth on an area east of Gaza City, injuring one.
In the south, strikes targeted an area near the Rafah refugee camp, locally known as the Yebna camp, a second strike hit tunnels near the Salah Ad-Din area and a third in the Barazili neighborhood. The third strike saw one man injured by debris from the strike.
Medics said the man was transferred to the Abu Yousef An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah for treatment.
In the northern Strip, Israeli warplanes fired one missile on an open area east of the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City, no injuries were reported in the second strike.
An Israeli military statement said all three strikes targeted tunnels, the first three smuggling tunnels and the third a "terror tunnel." The statement said that "direct hits were confirmed."
The statement said the strikes were in "response to the firing of an anti-tank missile at Israeli territory," adding that "The IDF [Israeli military] will not allow the Israeli southern communities to continue living under constant threat, and will continue to respond with determination to any attempt to use terror against the citizens of Israel."
No militant factions have claimed fire on Israel in the past week.
The set of strikes was the second in two days, with four reported wounded when a strike hit a plastics factory east of Gaza City, two of those injured were women, one of them was pregnant, officials said.
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Maria 7 apr 2011
IDF bombs Gaza tunnels; no injuries
Air Force carries out several strikes in Gaza Strip, destroys smuggling tunnels, Hamas post. IDF says strike a response to firing of anti-tank missile.
Israel's Air Force carried out several strikes in the Gaza Strip late Wednesday night, sources in the area reported.
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit confirmed the report and said that aircraft bombed three smuggling tunnels and a tunnel supporting terrorist activity in the northern Strip. It was also stated that all the aircrafts returned safely to their bases.
Palestinian sources said that the first strike destroyed a smuggling tunnel south of Rafah. Damage was also caused to adjacent tunnels. The sources noted the attack surprised the Palestinians, as the IDF usually alerts the Egyptian army prior to such strikes and they in turn alert the Palestinians.
At around 1 am on Thursday, a post belonging to Hamas's military wing in the Zeitun neighborhood was bombed. The post had been attacked several times in the past. The third strike targeted a house in Zeitun and the fourth strike damaged another smuggling tunnel.
Gaza's emergency and rescue services spokesman reported there were no known fatalities.
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said the attacks were a response to the firing of an anti-tank missile at Israel.
On Tuesday night, the IAF bombed two tunnels in the northern Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire. There were four injuries according to Palestinian reports.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4053395,00.html
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Israeli attacks kill five Palestinians
The body of a Palestinian killed after an Israeli air strike is brought to Al-Najar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip April 7, 2011.
Israel has intensified its attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, leaving at least five Palestinians dead and dozens injured in its fresh incursions, reports say.
Israeli tanks, gunboats and fighter jets jointly targeted the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Two Palestinians were killed and 25 were injured in the Gaza City. Another two people were also killed and 14 wounded in Rafah.
An Israeli helicopter gunship flying over Gaza machine-gunned a 17-year-old collecting scrap from the enclave's derelict airport and killed him, medics said.
Israeli army has confirmed that its planes and ground forces have attacked the Gaza Strip and have killed five Palestinians.
Palestinian medics said at least 30 people were injured in three hours of attacks by Israeli forces. Among the injured is a 4-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip.
The Tel Aviv regime has been recurrently bombarding Gaza ever since its 22-day war on the impoverished enclave in December 2008 and January 2009, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicted a damage of $1.6 billion on the region's already-stagnant economy.
The offensives are often launched under the usual pretext of responding to the purported firing of projectiles.
The Israeli hostility rages on while Tel Aviv refuses to lift an all-out blockade it imposed on Gaza in mid-June 2007.
The siege has deprived the Gaza population of food, fuel and medicine, triggering stunted growth and malnutrition among most Palestinian children, reports say.
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NalanSarraj
even medics are being injured and attacked ! we reached that level !! what the hell is going !!
avinunu Ali Abunimah
Honest at least. Israel's friend @jailer98 declares himself "delighted" to see Palestinian children bombed by Israel. yfrog.com/h434qp
29 oct 2012, 13:01 , Respect -
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Gaza: Ambulance hit in IDF strike
Palestinian sources reported that an ambulance was hit in an IDF strike on the Gaza Strip.
According to the report, a smuggling tunnel in Rafah and another target in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood were also hit in the strike. It was also said that the IDF fired mortar shells at the abandoned Dahaniya Airport in the south of the Gaza Strip.
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Erekat: International community must prevent new attack on Gaza
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- PLO executive committee member Saeb Erekat on Thursday urged Israel to end its attacks on the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, Erekat condemned Israel's "escalation and brutal military attacks" against the civilian population of Gaza.
For years, our people have suffered the devastating consequences of an illegal and inhumane siege, which continues in violation of international law and related United Nations resolutions," Erekat said.
Our people in Gaza have been denied of their basic rights to a dignified and safe life and endured wanton death and destruction from the occupying power, which continues to act with impunity.
"It is now time for the international community to intervene and prevent another round of merciless and illegitimate military escalation against Palestinian civilians.
Erekat also called on Palestinian factions to deny Israel any pretext for launching more attacks on Gaza and reiterated his support to the consensus reached earlier among the factions to maintain calm and ceasefire.
The Gaza Strip is an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, as an occupying power, remains obliged by the responsibilities outlined in international law to safeguard the lives and safety of the Palestinian population.
"We call on the international community to assume its responsibilities in ensuring that Israel respects those responsibilities by ending the illegal siege and ceasing all military attacks."
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Omar_Gaza
Breaking: a new martyr "unidentified", 6 dead till now 30+ injured in Gaza
Breaking: Israeli tank shelled Abdel Salam mosque in Shuja'eya Gaza
Breaking: Israeli tank shelled Abdel Salam mosque in Shuja'eya Gaza
Reminder: 6 Palestinians killed, 45 injured in Israeli attack against civilians of Gaza Strip. Palestine
Jess_Gaza
Gaza is still under attack, 6 martyrs so far Gaza
SoulFya soulfya
6 Palestinians killed,45 injured:
Mahmoud AlManasra(50),
Mosab AlSofi(18),
Mohammad AlMahmoum(20),
Khaled Debari(22),Saleh Tarabin(38)
+1 unknown
Omar_Gaza
Power Plant official: Israeli shell destroyed 2 vital power converters in Khan Younis which caused power outages Gaza
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Maria 7 apr 2011
Netanyahu vows more Gaza raids
Israel says it would not stop short of taking any military action against the Gaza Strip after an Israeli fanfare alleged that firing of projectiles came 'from the coastal sliver's direction.'
We will not shy away from taking all the necessary action, offensive and defensive, to protect our country and to protect our citizens," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Claiming to be responding to attacks from Gaza-based locations, the Israeli military assaulted several areas across the enclave, killing three Palestinians and injuring around 34 others.
One of the wounded has been described as a four-year-old girl. Eight received injuries after shell fragments hit an ambulance.
The Tel Aviv regime has been recurrently bombarding Gaza ever since its 22-day war on the impoverished enclave in December 2008 and January 2009, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicted a damage of $1.6 billion on the region's already-stagnant economy.
The offensives are often launched under the usual pretext of responding to the purported firing of projectiles.
The Israeli hostility rages on while Tel Aviv refuses to lift an all-out blockade it imposed on Gaza in mid-June 2007 in cooperation with the recently ousted regime of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The siege has deprived the Gaza population of food, fuel and medicine, triggering stunted growth and malnutrition among most Palestinian children.
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Medics: Gaza death toll rises to 3; 40 injured
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli artillery fire killed three Palestinians and injured 40 others in a major escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, after an anti-take missile struck a school bus in Israel and injured two people, Palestinian and Israeli medical officials said.
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1 dead as Israel fires on Gaza after projectile strikes bus
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli artillery fire killed an elderly man in Gaza after an anti-tank missile struck a school bus in southern Israel, injuring one person, Palestinian medics and an army spokeswoman said Thursday.
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Artillery fire kills 3 Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli artillery fire killed three Palestinians and injured dozens after a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip hit a school bus in southern Israel, injuring two people, medical and security officials said.
Witnesses said artillery fire injured four relatives of Mahmoud Al-Manasra, 50, who was killed when shells landed near his home in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.
Two people were injured after shells struck near the former Yasser Afarat International Airport in Rafah. Another round of shelling struck Khan Younis, but there were no reports of injury in that attack.
The shelling came after militants fired an anti-tank missile which hit a bus in southern Israel, critically wounding a teenager, as well as wounding one other person who was only lightly hurt, Israeli medics said.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack on the bus which occurred outside kibbutz Nahal Oz, which lies directly across the border from Shejaiya.
Shortly afterwards, another 15 mortar rounds landed in southern Israel, one of which slammed into a house in a community directly opposite Deir al-Balah, an Israeli police spokesman said.
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Israeli Gaza assaults kill 1, injure 10
Relatives of a Palestinian killed by Israel mourn the loss.
Israeli military has reportedly launched attacks on different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian and inflicting injuries on 10 others.
One of the Thursday attacks targeted the Gaza City in the north of the coastal sliver, causing the fatality and injuring eight others, including a small child, AFP reported.
The Israeli military also injured two more people in a follow-up assault on the Jabaliya refugee camp, situated in the north as well.
Israeli warplanes also pounded the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza without leaving any casualties.
The Israeli military claimed that the first attack followed an alleged mortar shell that was launched 'from the direction of Gaza.'
The Tel Aviv regime has been recurrently bombarding Gaza ever since its 22-day war on the impoverished enclave in December 2008 and January 2009, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicted a damage of $1.6 billion on the region's already-stagnant economy.
The offensives are often launched under the usual pretext of responding to the purported firing of projectiles.
The Israeli hostility rages on while Tel Aviv refuses to lift an all-out blockade it imposed on Gaza in mid-June 2007 with the cooperation of the recently ousted regime of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The siege has deprived the Gaza population of food, fuel and medicine, triggering stunted growth and malnutrition among most Palestinian children.
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Maria 7 apr 2011
US condemns attack on southern Israel
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The United States on Thursday condemned in the "strongest possible terms" an attack on civilians in southern Israel after Hamas claimed responsibility for firing an anti-tank missile at a school bus.
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Hamas military wing claims attack on Israeli school bus
GAZA CITY (AFP) -- The military wing of Hamas on Thursday claimed responsibility for firing an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus, the Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement.
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Omar_Gaza
Hearing news of shooting and tank shelling in Gaza now
Twitter Timeline: Revealing Context in Gaza
In what will likely be followed by more attacks on Gaza, a projectile fired from Gaza hit a bus inside Israel injuring those inside. Suddenly, news stories began to appear, the "twitterverse" began reflecting the news of the attack and Israeli officials already began to speak of punishing Gaza for the attack. The news media coverage of the event is typical: the timeline begins with an unprovoked attack on Israelis from Gaza, then Israel responds.
See it here in this AP story: http://fwd4.me/zAL
JERUSALEM An anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, including one child critically, Israeli officials said.
Israeli tanks quickly retaliated by opening fire across the border, killing a 50-year-old man and wounding seven other people, Palestinian medics said.
The sudden outbreak of violence illustrated the fragile situation along the Israel-Gaza border, where small bouts of violence can quickly escalate into heavy-scale warfare.
Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, ordered the army to respond quickly and said he held the Hamas militant group, which rules Gaza, responsible for the violence. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.
Another example is here, from Reuters:
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel Thursday hit a bus, seriously wounding a teenage boy and injuring several others, Israeli police said.
Israeli forces immediately struck back, shelling various locations across the Gaza Strip, killing a 50-year-old man and injuring at least six people, including a 4-year-old girl, Palestinian medics said
Note, both stories are bylined from Jerusalem, not Gaza. Perhaps that is one reason why there is no context in these stories. For more help on this, I turned to twitter. Below are tweets from some of our Gaza "tweeps" over the past 36 hours. How much of the information they are relaying do you think will make it into news coverage of these events? And, if this sparks a new Israeli war on Gaza, will anyone remember that the projectile that hit was preceded by attacks on Gaza? As I type this, many more tweets have been sent about F-16s, drones, Apache helicopters and tank shells targeting different parts of the Gaza Strip. They will likely continue to come in for some time.
Image : The factory destroyed by Israeli planes in a strike on Gaza yesterday from Osama Matar's tweet below.
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GazaYBO Gaza Youth Break Out Breaking : 2 explosion east of Gaza !
Palaestina Voice from Palestine
Israeli forces laying siege on a family in Rafah, Gaza; 3 are injured.Ambulances banned from taking them to hospital
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Maria 7 apr 2011
Shell lands in Egyptian territory
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A military-use projectile landed inside Egyptian territory late Thursday as deadly violence increased along the Gaza-Israel border, an Egyptian security official said.
The projectile landed 700 meters south of Gaza's Rafah crossing and caused a deep hole in the ground, the official said, adding that the Egyptian army opened an inquiry to determine its origin.
During Israel's Operation Cast Lead operation in Gaza that began in December 2008, 15 Israeli shells landed in Egypt without exploding, according to Egyptian security officials.
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Maria 7 apr 2011
IDF chief urges calm in south
'We will do what needs to be done,' Benny Gantz says during visit to south, where barrage of rockets followed anti-tank missile attack on student bus, which critically injured boy. US officials condemn 'targeting of innocent civilians'.
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz visited the Gaza vicinity Thursday evening after terrorists fired a barrage of rockets at Israel and an anti-tank missile hit a bus, injuring a 16-year old boy critically.
The army chief urged citizens to be calm, saying he was "sure we will take control of matters", even if this requires military action. "We will do everything that needs to be done," he said.
The US condemned the attack and the ensuing rocket fire, saying that there was "no justification for the targeting of innocent civilians".
"Those responsible for these terrorist attacks should be held accountable," officials from the State Department said in a statement, which added, "We are deeply about concerned about reports that indicate the use of an advanced anti-tank weapon in an attack against civilians, and reiterate that all countries have obligations under relevant UN Security Council resolutions to prevent illicit trafficking in arms and ammunition."
After the attack on the school bus the IDF launched a counterattack in Gaza, killing five people and injuring a number of others, including a child, according to sources in the Strip. Meanwhile, the Iron Dome defense system intercepted its first rocket above the skies of Ashkelon.
"We are still operating in this incident It is still early to conclude it," Gantz said. When asked whether Israel was headed for a second Operation Cast Lead, he advised civilians "not to be hysterical".
Shaar Hanegev Regional Council canceled school Friday, but schools in Ashkelon and Sderot will hold classes as usual. Council heads met with Defense Minister Ehud Barak late Thursday night in order to remind him that a number of towns within close proximity of the Gaza Strip still lack defense from rocket attacks.
Police brass also held a consultation, and decided to deploy additional officers and rescue services in the south. Minister of Homefront Defense Matan Vilnai also ordered three armored school buses to be allotted to the Shaar Hanegev region.
'He was just visiting grandma'
Barak said the anti-tank missile fire at the bus, which was conveying students home from school, was very serious "because it hit deep within Israel's territory from deep within the Strip".
"This is something we cannot accept. The actions being taken now are a reaction to this incident and they will continue as long as necessary in order to clarify that these things cannot go on," he said.
Barak also commented on the first successful interception by Iron Dome. "It is no secret that we have two active systems, but there is still a long way to go before we can say that we truly have a full solution. The system worked and apparently succeeded and this is a good thing, but it doesn't mean that it will be able to prevent all fire. This is what the IDF is for."
Meanwhile parents of the 15-year old boy who was critically injured in the bus attack sat by his hospital bed Thursday evening, praying for his wellbeing.
"He was just here visiting his grandmother for a few days, to make her happy, and he went for a ride with the bus driver, who is a friend of the family," his father said. "Who would have thought that this could happen during an innocent visit with grandma."
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