100 dead in four days of Israeli attacks on Gaza

Gaza health officials confirmed Friday that the dead are already hundred, 23 of them children, by more than 1,110 Israeli military attacks against Gaza, as part of the operation margin Protector. The last 11 deaths have occurred since last midnight. Among them are four members of the same family of Rafah (border town between Gaza and Egypt), the Ghannam – including a girl of seven years and a doctor. A 25 year old woman also died while protecting her four children, reports the Palestinian news agency Maan. The wounded, exceeding 600, are coming out in dribs and drabs by the southern passage with Egypt partially opened to assist those do not have space in medical centers or the range for which there are insufficient means (come drug shortages 30% health and machinery, 50%, said the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights).

Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, threatened Friday to include the objectives of its rockets to Ben Gurion International Airport, located just outside the city of Tel Aviv, Israel ‘s commercial capital.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has issued a report indicating that already destroyed 342 homes, displacing more than 2,000 citizens. Five health centers, he adds, have been damaged by shelling.

In Israel there are now two serious wounded by the release of nearly 600 rockets into its territory. One is a soldier reached during Thursday night by shrapnel in the Eshkol council and the other is an adult who was at a gas station this morning was struck by a projectile in Ashdod, in the coastal center of the country. Two other minor injuries in this county. The sirens have sounded back in Tel Aviv, but the missile defense system, Iron Dome has intercepted three rockets fired, again claimed by Hamas.

In northern Israel has reopened the front with Lebanon, as well, after the launch of two rockets into its territory in the early hours of Friday. One failed, has disintegrated in the road and the other has impacted in an open area of Metula, the northernmost city in the country, reports the military spokesman Motti Almoz. Three other rockets landed on the Lebanese side of the border. The Israeli army responded with artillery fire an hour later without causing personal injury or material according to local press. UNIFIL, the United Nations body, is already on the ground investigating. Military sources explained that believe the attack is the work of a Palestinian militia or minor jihadist groups, rather than party – Hezbollah Shiite militia. In any case, ” is being considered if symbolic, the heat of the conflict in Gaza, or something more substantial.”

In Israel, moreover, has intercepted a rocket on Haifa, 140 kilometers from the border with Gaza. The sirens have sounded throughout the area, from Hadera to Carmel. It was the first time since the war with Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 that the alarms had the citizens of Haifa to shelters. Hamas has called on foreign companies operating with the “Zionist entity “, as he calls Israel, “stop ” activity by the “dangers” of climbing.

Militarily, Israel repeated the strategy in the last hours is to maintain and even intensify air and sea bombing Gaza, at least in the coming days before considering a ground operation. Analysts such as Ron Ben-Yishai, in Yedioth Ahronot, show sympathy to a ground incursion, quick, strong, allowing destroy rocket launchers, honing in advance, ” very clearly ” the objectives, so that the intervention did not turn against him. It is a repeated thesis in the press yesterday. There are already some 20,000 troops deployed on the border.

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