Israel: At least two Palestinians are dead and 13 injured in an Israeli missile attack on Gaza terrorists.
Isarel has reportedly said it would continue airstrikes against Palestinian terrorists until the latter stopped violence in Israel.
The latest strike, which killed a man and a woman, brought the civilian toll in recent air attacks to 14.
Among those wounded is a pregnant woman and four children - two of them less than a year old.
Israel, has faced intense international criticism over its inceased air-attacks on Palestinian state.
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers shot dead an armed Palestinian man and wounded another man during a raid to arrest wanted terrorists in the West Bank town of Nablus, medics and Israeli military sources said.
The violence came amid an escalation in Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
An Israeli air strike aimed at terrorists killed three children in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in stepped up Israeli raids on terrorists firing rockets at southern Israel.
Medics at a Nablus hospital said a member of the al-Aqsa Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, had died of injuries sustained when he was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers earlier on Wednesday.
The Israeli army said troops searching for wanted militants had shot at the armed man, killing him. Palestinian medics said a second man was also wounded.
(With inputs from Reuters)
Comments
0 comment