الخميس، 7 أبريل 2011

Fighting erupts in Gaza and the killing of five Palestinians in Israeli shelling

 Fighting erupts in Gaza and the killing of five Palestinians in Israeli shelling
- Fighting erupted in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after a shell hit a Palestinian anti-tank Israeli school bus, injuring two people and Israeli troops responded with artillery and air strike killed five Palestinians.
Palestinian medics said that at least 30 people were wounded in the attack by Israeli forces over the next three hours. The bombardment eased after the entry of the night.
The Palestinian was killed in the fifty years of age in the east of Gaza because of the shelling in the afternoon and four others were killed in air strikes in the south near the border with Egypt.
And wounded an Israeli boy from the bus passengers were seriously injured as the bus driver were injured. The Palestinian girl in the age of four among the injured in the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which runs the Palestinian sector responsibility for the attack on the bus and said it was a response to Israel's killing of three Palestinian militants in an air strike on Saturday.
The aircraft bombed an Israeli F-16s, a large security compound of Hamas, an explosion rocked Gaza City, wounding one person and injured at least one.
He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a news conference during a visit to Prague, "We hope to accommodate this situation but we will not hesitate to take all necessary measures, whether offensive or defensive to protect our country and protecting our citizens."
The Israeli army said that 45 rockets and mortar bombs were fired from Gaza at Israel during the three hours in the heaviest shelling in weeks. There were no reports of casualties, another Israeli as a result.
The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Western powers to intervene to stop "this aggression."
He also urged Palestinian militants not to give Israel a pretext to attack Gaza.
In the first known use to shield Israel's Iron Dome missile destroyed two rockets fired by Israel Aaatarazian two rockets fired from Gaza towards Israeli city of Ashkelon just north of Gaza.
Netanyahu said "our Iron Dome interceptor missile successfully intercepted Mqdhuvin."
And an Israeli helicopter fired a machine-gun fire at a target in Gaza for the first time since war broke out late December December 2008 and lasted three weeks. The plane fired a missile at a target in the central Gaza Strip.
Medics said the helicopter fire killed one person 17 years old, he was collecting scrap in Gaza's disused international airport. Three others were killed in the vicinity.
Palestinian sources said that militants in the Gaza Strip fired at the plane of the heavy machine gun.
A spokesman for the Israeli police said the bus was transporting students to their homes while her anti-tank missile fired from long range. He added that 40 students had left the bus just stopped in the last time before her.
The United States condemned the rocket attacks and expressed concern about the weapon that was used in injuring the bus.
The spokesman said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Toner "We are concerned in particular about reports that show use of a weapon advanced anti-tank missile in an attack on civilians."
He noted that all states are obliged under the UN Security Council resolutions preventing the smuggling of weapons and ammunition.
And Defence Minister Ehud Barak issued a statement which he said he ordered the army "to take the necessary steps quickly and to respond to the attack," and that Israel holds Hamas responsible for all the events that are happening in the Gaza Strip.
The attacks came on Thursday after a relative lull in attacks across the border between Gaza and Israel after a sudden escalation in violence last month, killing 16 Palestinians, at least.
The Israel and Hamas to their readiness to return to the cease-fire that has kept the border relatively secure since the war launched by Israel on Gaza in late December in December 2008 and spread to mid-January, January 2009.
A spokesman for Hamas on Thursday, want to return once again calm in tense confrontation.

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