Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 11 including 2 women, 4 children

FE Team | Published: July 10, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

GAZA CITY, July 9 (agencies): Israeli warplanes Wednesday killed two women and four children in a series of strikes to the north and east of Gaza City, medics said.
"Four Palestinians were killed in air strikes, including two brothers who are 12 and 13 years old in Shejaiya, while a four-year-old boy and a woman were killed in a raid on Zeitun," emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.
Both neighbourhoods are located east of Gaza City, close to the frontier with Israel.
In a separate air strike on the northern town of Beit Hanun, a 40-year-old woman and her 14-year-old son were killed, he added.
Eleven Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza Wednesday, hiking the overall death toll to 32 in two days, with more than 150 wounded, medics said.
The deadliest strike took place shortly after midnight when a missile slammed into a house in the northern town of Beit Hanun, killing Hafez Hammad, a senior Islamic Jihad commander, and five of his family members, including two women and two children.
Shortly afterwards, a 30-year-old man was killed in an air strike on Rafah, medics said.
As day broke, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a motorcycle in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, leaving 30-year-old Rafiq al-Kafarne clinically dead and another person severely wounded.
In Mughraqa in central Gaza, medics retrieved the body of 80-year-old Naifeh Farajallah from the rubble of her house damaged in an earlier air strike.
In the same area, an Israel missile killed two men in a field near Nusseirat refugee camp. Medics named them as Abdel Nasser Abu Kweik, 60, and his son Khaled, 31.
Overnight, Israeli warplanes struck 160 targets, raising the overall number of strikes to 430 since the launch of Operation Protective Edge in the early hours of Tuesday.
Since midnight (2100 GMT), at least seven rockets struck Israel, and another eight were shot down by Iron Dome, two of them over the Tel Aviv area, an army spokeswoman said.
Throughout Tuesday, 117 rockets struck Israel, with 45 of them targeting major cities in the centre, among them Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, as well as Hadera, 116 kilometres (72 miles) to the north.
The army confirmed the Hadera strike was the furthest that a rocket fire from Gaza had ever reached.