- Title: GAZA: Israel bombs militant targets, two wounded - medics
- Date: 27th February 2011
- Summary: VARIOUS OF MEDICAL CREW ATTENDING TO WOUNDED BABY PEOPLE ENTERING ROOM MAN HOLDING BABY WITH BANDAGE ON HER HEAD
- Embargoed: 14th March 2011 12:00
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- Location: Gaza, Gaza
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVAEY1ZSQ5ZWK1A21AQKGQ41PGJE
- Story Text: Israeli warplanes bomb targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding a seven-month-old girl and a Palestinian man, medics say.
Israeli warplanes bombed at least four targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday (February 26), wounding a seven-month-old girl and a Palestinian man, medics in the coastal territory said.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
Medics said a strike launched on a Hamas national guard post in Rafah, a town near Gaza's border with Egypt, hit near a home and the baby was wounded in the head by shrapnel. The injury was not listed as serious and was described as slight.
A Palestinian man, said to be a civilian, was wounded moderately in an earlier strike on a militants' training camp in Gaza, the medics said.
Palestinian medics also reported two earlier Israeli air strikes before dawn on Saturday against targets of the Islamic Jihad group. There were no injuries.
Islamic Jihad had been blamed for a rocket fired on Wednesday (February 23) from Gaza that struck the deepest in Israel since a Gaza war of two years ago, damaging a home in the city of Beersheba.
That rocket attack had followed the killing of a Palestinian militant in Gaza from Islamic Jihad, and the wounding of another in Israeli tank fire at the coastal territory earlier on Wednesday. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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