Israel air strikes kill 22 on day 3 of Gaza campaign
GAZA CITY: Five Palestinian children were among 22 people killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza early Thursday, medics said, with most of the bloodshed in the southern city of Khan Yunis. The deaths...
July 10, 2014
In one attack, a five-year-old boy was killed when an Israeli missile struck the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told.
The majority of deaths took place in Khan Yunis with a strike at around 1:00am (2200 GMT) hitting a coffee shop where people were watching the World Cup semi-final between Argentina and the Netherlands.
Eight people were killed and at least 15 wounded.
An hour later, Israeli warplanes struck two houses elsewhere in the city, killing four women and four children, Qudra said.
A 19-year-old man also died in a separate strike on the southern city in the late morning. In Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a rocket hit a house, killing one man. And shortly after daybreak, a missile hit a car in western Gaza City, killing three.
Separately, a man who was badly wounded in a raid east of Gaza City a day earlier died of his wounds, Qudra said.
His death raised Wednesday´s toll to 30 people. On Tuesday, the first day of the operation, 21 people were killed. The army said it had hit more than 300 targets overnight, raising the total number of strikes just over 48 hours to 750, in Israel´s largest military operation in Gaza since November 2012.
