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11-05-2023
GAZA: At least one Palestinian has been killed in Israeli air attacks that pounded the Gaza for a second straight day, according to the Palestinian ministry of health in the Strip.
Local media reported on Wednesday that at least one other Palestinian was wounded. The air raids struck multiple locations across the besieged enclave, including in the south and the north, including a number of sites belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ), east of Khan Yunis.
The PIJ did not confirm that the victims were members of the group.
In response to the air raids on Gaza, rockets were fired from Strip towards southern Israel.
Reporting from Gaza City, journalist Youmna El Sayed said “barrages of rockets are being launched from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israeli towns. We also saw the Iron Dome trying to intercept these rockets.
“This is the first response since the Israeli attack on Gaza yesterday…after 36 hours after the Israeli attack. This is the first Palestinian response,” she added.
El Sayed confirmed that some of the sites that were hit by Israeli raids earlier were camps belonging to the al-Quds Brigade, the military arm of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
She added that Palestinians in Gaza were on high alert, with a lot of worry as schools and public and private facilities have closed and people try to stay indoors.
“There is a very high sense of tension and worry among the residents of Gaza since the Israeli attacks yesterday. Everything in Gaza is closed and people have remained in their homes,” she explained.
These attacks come a day after Israeli forces attacked Gaza City and its environs on Tuesday, killing 15 people, including four children, in what they said was an operation targeting three PIJ commanders.
In an overnight attack, Israeli also killed two people in attacks on the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya, during which a 17-year-old Palestinian was shot in the chest and transferred to hospital.
The health ministry identified the slain men as Ahmad Jamal Assaf, 19, and Warani Walid Qatanat, 24, who were shot by Israeli soldiers in Qabatiya town, south of Jenin, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
