GAZA: Casualties arrive in Gaza hospitals after Israel and Hamas exchange fiercest fire in years

Record ID: 340969

  • Title: GAZA: Casualties arrive in Gaza hospitals after Israel and Hamas exchange fiercest fire in years
  • Date: 15th November 2012
  • Summary: MEN, PARAMEDICS CARRYING SECOND BODY INTO HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF PARAMEDICS AND DOCTORS TENDING TO BODY IN HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF PARAMEDICS WRAPPING BODY WITH CLOTH
  • Embargoed: 30th November 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Gaza
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics,People
  • Reuters ID: LVA9JRFZJK51MOVMHRL0TH5YDB5K
  • Story Text: Medical staff in Gaza's hospitals on Thursday (November 15) tended to Palestinians wounded and killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes.
    Launched on Wednesday (November 14) during a deceptive lull in almost a week of surging cross-border violence, Israel's air assault had an intensity recalling the outset of the 2008-09 Gaza war though this time the Palestinian death toll of 13 was far lower.
    Thirteen Gazans, including three children, were killed, the Hamas government said, and about 100 were wounded. More than 100 air strikes pounded Gaza throughout the night, and three members of a Hamas rocket crew were killed. Also among the dead were a baby and a woman pregnant with twins.
    Hamas, reeling at the strategic loss of top commander Ahmed Al-Jaabari in a devastating strike on his car, resumed rocket attacks against the Jewish state's desert south.
    Israeli police said more than 80 rockets and mortars were fired in from Gaza after Jaabari's death. Israel's military said its Iron Dome interceptor had shot down 27 of the missiles.
    Israel said it had destroyed much of Gaza's longer-range rocket stockpiles, an assertion seemingly confirmed when Hamas claims of hits on ambitious targets like Tel Aviv, Israeli naval craft and secret intelligence bases proved false.
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