Assault on Gaza: Scoop News and Links
This weekend has seen the bloodiest violence in Gaza for at least three years.
We will be keeping a record of the attacks and reports on them as events unfold as a rolling blog.
We also have a correspondent in Gaza, Julie Webb Pullman providing exclusive reports on the violence. These can be read
here:
Four people have been killed today, Friday, in Israeli aerial attacks on the Gaza Strip. More>>
Today I went to my corner shop to get bread for my breakfast. It was closed - two members of the family had been killed
in Israeli airstrikes overnight. Like every Gazan, they never know when they leave the house in the morning if they,
their child, ... More>>
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Digest: Reports on the Attacks So Far
By Mark P. Williams
Scoop will update this chronology regularly as further reports emerge.
Monday 12th March, 2012
The first reports of the week are beginning to give a sense of the scale of this weekend's attacks.
As of this morning, 18 Palestinians have been killed and around 30 Palestinian civilians injured by Israeli air strikes.
While at least eight people are believed to have been wounded in Israel by Palestinian rockets and mortar fire.
Reports suggest that between 100 and 130 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel between Friday night and Sunday in
response to the killing of Zuhair al-Qaissi, a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees whom Israel says was planning
a large terrorist attack (The Times of Israel).
The Financial Times reported that at least 18 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli air strikes, adding that Israel's Iron Dome missile
defence system had stopped 40 out of 49 missiles launched from Gaza as of 3.26pm GMT. However, Haaretz reports that the Iron Dome was subject to malfunctions during the rocket attacks, resulting in two rockets landing in
the neighbourhood of Be'er Sheva and a school being struck. No students were injured.
This morning, at least 15 Palestinian militants are believed to have been killed. The Bangkok Post reported that 10 of those killed belonged to the Islamic Jihad group and five to the Popular Resistance Committees.
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