Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids in several parts of the Gaza Strip yesterday and on Wednesday.
Five of the victims were activists affiliated to Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, one was affiliated to the military wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades. All of these were killed on Wednesday evening.
Palestinian medical sources named Wednesday’s victims as Mahmoud Al-Mutawwaq, Saed Nabhan and his brother Jawdat. They were killed as Israeli warplanes launched an attack on Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Four people injured in the attack were taken to local hospitals. They have been named as Nihad Abu Sido, Omar Al-Hasanat, Mahir Ta’alsa and Salih An-Nabhan.
Hammuda Ash-Sharafa, Ahmad Abu Hmaid and Jamal Assaf were killed in a separate Israeli raid on the northern Gaza Strip also on Wednesday evening.
Yesterday morning, Hani Na’im, a school teacher from the Agricultural School in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip was killed when Israeli artillery fired a missile at the school.
He was taken to hospital in Beit Hanoun where he was pronounced dead. Five other people were injured in the attack on the school.
The Israeli air force yesterday launched two other raids at Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and An-Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre.
As a result, three Palestinians were injured.
One of the targets was a car in Khan Younis in which Palestinian activists were travelling. They survived the attack but a woman bystander was injured.
The other raid was against a blacksmith’s workshop in the middle of an orange grove in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, in which a man and his son were injured.
Hamas spokesperson in Khan Younis, Hammad Ar-Ruqab threatened on Wednesday to conduct more bombing operations inside Israel as long as Israeli forces continue to commit atrocities against the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.