Gaza: Several Palestinian are feared dead or wounded as Israel carried out over two dozen air strikes in Gaza on Thursday night.
There were more than 25 air strikes on Thursday night, according to Reuters witnesses. One attack targeted an electricity generator feeding into the house of the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh. A police station and tunnels on Gaza’s border with Egypt were also hit.
Just after the visit of Egyptian Prime Minister, Tunis also announced that it’s foreign minister to visit Gaza on Saturday.
Earlier, Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired two rockets at Tel Aviv. One hit the suburb of Rishon Lezion, triggering air raid sirens. The other landed in the sea, according to Israeli security sources. No-one was hurt.
They were the first rocket attacks on Tel Aviv since 1991. The Israeli armed forces are preparing to call up 30,000 reserve troops, as speculation mounts that a ground offensive in Gaza is being considered.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s prime minister and security officials will make a one-day visit to Gaza on Friday in a show of support for the Palestinian enclave after several days of shelling by Israeli forces, a cabinet source told the Reuters news agency.
The Israeli army says three people in Israel were killed by a Hamas rocket following the bombardment of Gaza by Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats.
Hamas fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel, killing three people, following reported numerous airstrikes by Israel across the Gaza Strip.
Israeli police said the three died when a Palestinian rocket hit a four-storey building in the town of Kiryat Malachi, some 25 km north of Gaza. They were the first Israeli fatalities of the latest conflict to hit the coastal region.
Israel on Wednesday assassinated Hamas’s military chief Ahmed al-Jaabari and shelled the enclave from the land, sea and air, killing 15 people, including five militants, three children and a pregnant woman. An estimated 100 were wounded.
BBC journalist Jihad Misharawi’s baby son Omar and sister in law’s funeral took place in the city. Both were killed in Israeli attack on Gaza.
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