[ZEENEWS.INDIA] An Israeli operation against Gazoo murderous Moslems has killed 28 people, medics said on Wednesday, and maimed more than 150, in the deadliest day of violence in the coastal strip since 2012.
Air strikes which began in Gazoo on Tuesday killed 24 people, including two women and five children, and Israeli forces killed four Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, murderous Moslems who staged a beachfront assault on an army base just north of the besieged Strip.
| Not an army base, according to Ynet, but a kibbutz. And Israeli troops found and killed a fifth Hamas "SEAL" after the ZeeNews report was filed. But do carry on, dear ZeeNews reporter. |
In the worst strike, a missile slammed into a house in the southern city of Khan Yunis after people had reportedly formed a human shield to protect it, killing seven people.
| A foreseeable consequence, were one the type to believe in consequences... |
Emergency services front man Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP two teenagers were among the dead and that at least another 25 people were maimed.
An eight-year-old child maimed in the strike later died of his injuries.
Witnesses said an Israeli drone fired a warning flare, prompting relatives and neighbours to gather at the house as a human shield and that, shortly afterwards, an F-16 warplane fired a missile that levelled the building.
In response, Hamas said "all Israelis" would be potential targets for retaliation.
Shortly afterwards, two Paleostinians were killed in a strike in Shejaiya, east of Gazoo City, Qudra said.
The blast shook buildings in the city, and Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV replayed what it said was a video of the strike, which sent a tall cloud of debris rising into the air.
| The BBC says an awful lot of purported Gaza imagery was actually taken at other times and in other places. |
A further three separate air strikes killed three people, including a teenager.
One hit a tuktuk, or motorised rickshaw, in Beit Lahiya in the north of Gazoo, killing a "young man," and one west of Gazoo City killed a 16-year-old boy, Qudra said.
The third, a while later, hit Deit al-Balah in central Gazoo killing a Paleostinian man, he said, without identifying him.
Earlier, three people were killed when a missile struck a car in the centre of Gazoo City.
Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV showed gruesome images of charred body parts being loaded onto ambulance stretchers.
| About that BBC image research... |
The third, a while later, hit Deit al-Balah in central Gazoo killing a Paleostinian man, he said, without identifying him.
And an early morning strike on a house in Beit Hanun in the north of the Strip killed six people, Qudra said, without providing immediate details.
Earlier, three people were killed when a missile struck a car in the centre of Gazoo City.
Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV showed gruesome images of charred body parts being loaded onto ambulance stretchers.
| As the BBC reported, real images, but mostly not from the Gaza strip nor taken today. |
Relatives said all of them were Hamas bad boys, identifying one as Mohammed Shaaban, 32, a senior commander in Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades. He was also head of the group's naval operations.
The Army confirmed targeting Shaaban, describing him as "a senior Hamas operative".
In a separate strike near Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gazoo, another man was killed, with witnesses saying he was a Hamas bad boy.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse...
the army rubbed out four men from the Brigades on a beach in Israel after they had infiltrated, not far from the Gazoo border.
"A number of snuffies came out of the ocean and attacked the base with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades," said army front man Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner.
Soldiers on the base near kibbutz Zikim, just north of the Gazoo Strip, shot two of the bad boys, aircraft killed a third and the navy killed the fourth, said Lerner.
One soldier was lightly injured. The Brigades said its men carried out an attack at Zikim although it did not report losses, saying instead there were heavy casualties on the Israeli side.
It said it fired 10 Katyusha rockets at the Israeli base.
The deaths came hours after Israel announced the start of Operation Protective Edge, aimed at stamping out rocket fire on southern Israel and destroying Hamas's military infrastructure.
Lerner said some 120 rockets were fired at Israel, 23 of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system, with most of the rest falling on open ground causing no damage or casualties. 
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