Israel Pounds Gaza for Third Straight Day While Hamas Fires Rockets at Israeli Towns
Here’s hoping that HAMAs’ supply of manufactured and imported missiles gets used up or destroyed, and that with the other conflicts in the Mid East that they don’t receive any more of these dangerous missiles from their allies after this.
Israel’s major military operation against Hamas and other militant groups in the Gaza Strip entered its third day Thursday, with a surge in deaths in the territory, including nine Palestinians killed while watching a World Cup game at a beach-front cafe.
The death toll in Gaza jumped overnight, doubling to 80 dead and more than 500 injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The latest fatality was 5-year-old Abdullah Abu Gazal, who was killed in a midmorning Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia.
Israel pounded the coastal enclave with airstrikes Thursday aimed at Palestinian operatives, launch sites and weapons caches, as well as, more controversially, the homes of militant leaders there.
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