GAZA: In an exemplary barbaric Israeli air strike a five-months pregnant Palestinian woman and her three-year-old daughter have been killed in Gaza on Sunday, while three persons are injured.
Medical sources in the besieged territory said 30-year-old Noor Hassan and her daughter Shahd died when their house collapsed following an Israeli air strike on a Hamas military training camp near their home. Palestinian rescue services are continuing to search other casualties under the rubble.
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinian teenagers in the Gaza Strip during confrontations, less than 24 hours after six people were shot dead while protesting along the border with Israel.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 13-year-old Marwan Barbakh and 15-year-old Omar Othman were shot with live ammunition in eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said the air strikes were launched in response to a rocket that was fired into southern Israel. The rocket was reportedly intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome rocket defence system.
Following the deaths of the mother and child, Israeli Army Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner ridiculously said: ‘The IDF (Israeli army) holds Hamas responsible for any act of aggression from the Gaza Strip.
‘This weekend, we have seen clear incitement encouraging the breach of Israel’s sovereignty, violent confrontation against Israelis, and threatening the residents of southern Israel.
‘The IDF will continue to act, pre-empt and defeat those that plot to harm the civilians of Israel.’
