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Israeli shelling destroys Gaza power lines
[Ma'an] Israeli shelling on Saturday destroyed power lines providing electricity to the Gazoo Strip, said Electricity Company front man Jamal Ad-Dardasawi.
"By shelling these lines, the company has lost around 50 megawatts, leaving most of Gazoo's neighborhoods without electricity. Only 40 megawatts are left to be distributed across the city," he said. "In addition, the company lost more than 12 megawatts in the northern district after Israel shelled the line that provides the area with electricity." The front man said the company was working on bringing technicians in to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure. Gazoo's Interior Ministry said five were maimed, including a 3-year-old boy, as Israeli forces struck targets in the coastal enclave. Locals said the Israeli strikes targeted a security facility in Gazoo City's Shuja'iyya neighborhood. Meanwhile Israeli tanks targeted a mosque in the south, the Gazoo International Airport near Rafah, and the Shokat As-Sufi village, eyewitnesses said. The shelling came hours after huge kabooms were heard in the southern Gazoo City, apparently from Paleostinian launch pads as resistance fighters launched mortar shells at Israeli areas bordering the Gazoo Strip. Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing grabbed credit for the mortar attacks, and said the shelling came in response to Israel's "crimes and the ongoing air and ground strikes on the Gazoo Strip the latest of which targeted and killed two Hamas' fighters." Israel said 49 mortar bombs fell on or around Israeli communities near the border with the Gazoo Strip in the biggest violation yet of an informal truce snuffies declared in January. Army radio said only minor damage was caused but an Israeli military front man said two civilians were lightly maimed when three projectiles fell on Pithat Shalom in the Negev desert. Posted by: Fred 2011-03-20 |
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