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| Israelis kill 46 Gazans on Day 12, raising toll to 342 |
| 2014-07-20 |
| [ARABNEWS] The Gazoo corpse count hit 342 on Saturday as Israeli warplanes intensified their bombardment and troops pressed a ground assault on the 12th day of a major confrontation with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. And the overall Israeli corpse count rose to five following violence in which two soldiers and a civilian were killed, the army and police said. The latest incident in Gazoo saw one man killed in an air strike on the northern town of Jabaliya shortly after two were killed in a strike near Deir Al-Balah in central Gazoo, emergency services front man Ashraf Al-Qudra said. And another two people were killed in Zeitun, east of Gazoo City, raising the number of Paleostinians killed on Saturday to 46. In southern Israel, two soldiers were killed when a group of Gazoo Lions of Islam got under the border fence and fired machine guns and an anti-tank missile at an army patrol. Troops returned fire killing one of the Lions of Islam in an attack claimed by Hamas. Also in the south, an Israeli Bedouin man was killed and four family members maimed, two of them children, when a rocket hit their desert encampment not far from Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona, police said. Their deaths raised to five the number of Israelis killed since the conflict began on July 8, including a soldier who was reportedly killed by friendly fire. Among those killed in Gazoo were five members of the same family, including a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old, who died in a strike on a house in the northern town of Beit Hanun, Qudra said. Earlier, Qudra also reported five bodies had been pulled from a home hit by an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis. So far, more than 2,385 Paleostinians have been maimed in the biggest confrontation in and around Gazoo since Operation Cast Lead, a bloody 22-day offensive which ended in January 2009. Israeli troops began a ground offensive in parts of Gazoo late on Thursday, starting a new phase in the operation which it said was aimed at destroying tunnels used by the territory's dominant power, Islamist movement Hamas. |
| Posted by:Fred |