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Israeli warplanes continue strikes on Gaza, 390 killed
 (Xinhua) -- In spite of the whether conditions, Israeli warplanes continued on Wednesday targeting by missiles different targets belongs to Islamic Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements, witnesses said.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian Health Ministry told reporters that Ihab el-Madhoun, a Palestinian doctor died of his wounds he sustained on Tuesday. El-Madhoun was critically wounded as he was working with a medical team trying to rescue a number of Palestinian casualties northeast of Gaza City on Tuesday night. The paramedic Mohamed Abu Hasira was killed in the strike. Meanwhile, Omer Alnasser, head of public relations in the Hamas-ruled ministry of health in Gaza said in a statement that since Saturday, 390 Palestinians were killed and 1900 wounded. "We are about to prepare a list of names of all were killed so far, and an up to date figures will be delivered to the mass media within the coming a few hours," said Alnasser. The Israeli air fighters supported by the pilotless drones kept hovering over the Gaza Strip, in spite of the raining and cloudy whether, where a house in southern Gaza strip was bombarded, whereone woman was critically wounded. Witnesses said that four more airstrikes were carried out on different targets in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, not far from the border with Egypt, where Israeli artillery and naval gunships shells other targets in the enclave. Overnight, Israeli airstrikes continued, where more than 40 Israeli airstikes were carried out on different targets in the Gaza Strip, where two Hamas-government's installations were bombarded for the second time. The building of Hamas cabinet and the building of the former preventive security of president Mahmoud Abbas security forces were leveled to the ground after they were bombarded by Israeli rockets. Israeli warplanes had also launched airstrikes on the borderline between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, saying that the airstrike targeted dozens of underground tunnels under the bordersused for smuggling. Meanwhile, in spite of the intensive airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, Islamic Hamas movement's armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for launching more than 40 long-range rockets at Israeli cities. The group said in short statements sent to reporters' cellular phones that the rockets targeted the cities of Beer Sheva, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Sderout and other Jewish communities in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip. "Our operation called the Oil Spot will continue and rockets' firing on the Zionist enemy cities and towns would be widened to revenge the massive massacres committed against our people," the Hamas armed wing said. Posted by: Fred 2009-01-01 |
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