Israeli strikes kill 4 in Gaza, hiking toll to 34

Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of Gaza's Hamas government.


Afp November 17, 2012

GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes on central and southern Gaza killed four people on Saturday, medics said, raising the overall death toll in Gaza to 34.

"Three men died in an Israeli air strike on Maghazi camp in central Gaza," said emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya.

Separately, medics said another person was killed in a strike on a motorcycle in the Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood of the southern city of Rafah, which took place shortly before a visit by Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem

He was, who is expected to arrive through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt at around 0800 GMT, official sources said.

A Palestinian security source told AFP the three who died in central Gaza were all from the ruling Hamas movement, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, naming them as Ali Manameh, Hossam Abdel Jawad and Assaf Gharwish.

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