MIDEAST: Israeli air strike kills one as military prepares for possible Israeli invasion of Gaza

Record ID: 340991

  • Title: MIDEAST: Israeli air strike kills one as military prepares for possible Israeli invasion of Gaza
  • Date: 17th November 2012
  • Summary: MAN AT MORGUE VARIOUS OF INJURED AT HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 2nd December 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Gaza, Israel
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  • Country: Gaza Israel
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA5K669B63UVSRZFAOP45AO8JMW
  • Story Text: Israel deployed artillery along Gaza's border on Saturday (November 17), hours after aircraft bombed Hamas government buildings in Gaza, including the prime minister's office, after Israel's cabinet authorised the mobilisation of up to 75,000 reservists, preparing for a possible ground invasion.
    Israeli aircraft bombed various locations on Saturday evening, killing one and several injures, Palestinian medics reported.
    Palestinian militants in Gaza kept up their cross-border rocket salvoes. One rocket hit an apartment building in the Israeli Mediterranean port city of Ashdod, ripping into several balconies, and police said five people were injured.
    Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, said Israeli missiles wrecked the office building of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh - where he had met on Friday (November 16) with the Egyptian prime minister - and struck a police headquarters.
    With Israeli tanks and artillery positioned along the Gaza border and no end in sight to hostilities now in their fourth day, Tunisia's foreign minister travelled to the enclave in a show of Arab solidarity.
    Officials in Gaza said 41 Palestinians, nearly half of them civilians including eight children and a pregnant woman, had been killed since Israel began its air strikes. Three Israeli civilians were killed by a rocket on Thursday.
    The Gaza conflagration has stirred the pot of a Middle East already boiling from two years of Arab revolution and a civil war in Syria that threatens to spread beyond its borders.
    Hamas fighters are no match for the Israeli military. The last Gaza war, involving a three-week long Israeli air blitz and ground invasion over the New Year period of 2008-09, killed over 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians. Thirteen Israelis died.
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