MIDEAST: Palestinian toddler killed in Israeli air strike after Israel civilian killed by sniper

Record ID: 341236

  • Title: MIDEAST: Palestinian toddler killed in Israeli air strike after Israel civilian killed by sniper
  • Date: 24th December 2013
  • Summary: NAHAL OZ, ISRAEL (DECEMBER 24, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SMOKE BILLOWING OVER GAZA AS SEEN FROM BORDER BETWEEN GAZA AND ISRAEL VARIOUS OF ISRAELI ARMY MONITORING THE BORDER KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (DECEMBER 24, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SMOKE BILLOWING AFTER AN ISRAELI AIR STRIKE PEOPLE GATHERING AROUND SITE AMBULANCE ARRIVING TO SITE GAZA CITY, GAZA (DECEMBER 24, 2013) (
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  • Location: Gaza, Israel
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  • Country: Gaza Israel
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  • Story Text: Israel hit back with air strikes on two Hamas training camps on Tuesday (December 24) which hospital officials said killed a Palestinian girl near one of the targets, after a Gaza sniper shot dead an Israeli civilian over the border.
    Officials from Hamas, the Islamic group which rules Gaza, and witnesses said Israeli aircraft bombed the group's training camps in Khan Younis and al-Bureij. Witnesses said Israeli tanks fired shells east of Gaza city.
    Gaza hospital officials said a girl, whom they estimated was two-years-old, was killed by shrapnel during the Israeli strike on the Bureij facility.
    She was standing with other family members outside their home near the camp and two of her brothers were wounded, the officials said.
    The Israeli man, who the military said was working on Israel's security fence, was the first Israeli killed on the Gaza frontier in more than a year.
    His death, which drew a swift threat of retaliation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, came amid heightened tensions after two suspected Palestinian attacks - a bus bombing near Tel Aviv on Sunday that caused no casualties and the wounding of an Israeli policeman in a stabbing on Monday.
    There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the sniper attack, which followed a Palestinian rocket strike on southern Israel on Sunday that caused no casualties.
    However, since an eight-day war in November 2012, both Israel and Gaza's Hamas Islamist rulers have been wary of taking military action that could trigger widescale fighting.
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