Fresh clashes: Israel air strikes kill eight Palestinians
Israel army claims to have targeted people who launched rockets from Gaza.
GAZA CITY:
Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed eight Palestinian militants, medics said on Monday, after recovering two more bodies from a collapsed tunnel in Rafah.
Two militants are missing in the tunnel and feared dead. The strikes came a day after armed groups fired 25 rockets and mortar rounds at southern Israel.
Two of the militants were killed east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza in a missile strike, which came shortly before midnight (2100 GMT), witnesses said.
The Israeli military confirmed targeting a group of people involved in “launching rockets from central Gaza”.
Several hours later, two more militants were killed and two civilians wounded in a drone strike east of the southern city of Rafah which caused the collapse of a tunnel, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
The bodies of two more militants were pulled from the tunnel during the morning, he added.
The army confirmed a series of raids across Gaza, saying they had targeted “nine terror sites and concealed rocket launchers.”
In a separate drone strike in Rafah, another militant was critically wounded and later died of his injuries.
Medics said five civilians were wounded in the northern town of Beit Hanun after a rocket fired by militants fell short of Israel.
The Israeli military said it had hit a total of 14 targets overnight. It added militants had fired an anti-tank missile at an army patrol by the border fence. There were no casualties.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2014.
Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed eight Palestinian militants, medics said on Monday, after recovering two more bodies from a collapsed tunnel in Rafah.
Two militants are missing in the tunnel and feared dead. The strikes came a day after armed groups fired 25 rockets and mortar rounds at southern Israel.
Two of the militants were killed east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza in a missile strike, which came shortly before midnight (2100 GMT), witnesses said.
The Israeli military confirmed targeting a group of people involved in “launching rockets from central Gaza”.
Several hours later, two more militants were killed and two civilians wounded in a drone strike east of the southern city of Rafah which caused the collapse of a tunnel, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
The bodies of two more militants were pulled from the tunnel during the morning, he added.
The army confirmed a series of raids across Gaza, saying they had targeted “nine terror sites and concealed rocket launchers.”
In a separate drone strike in Rafah, another militant was critically wounded and later died of his injuries.
Medics said five civilians were wounded in the northern town of Beit Hanun after a rocket fired by militants fell short of Israel.
The Israeli military said it had hit a total of 14 targets overnight. It added militants had fired an anti-tank missile at an army patrol by the border fence. There were no casualties.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2014.