Gaza City – A rocket fired by Palestinian militants toward Israel exploded in the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday, killing a 3-year-old girl and wounding three other people, a medical official said.
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Ashraf al-Kidra said it was not clear whether the rocket was misfired, or whether an Israeli rocket-defense system intercepted it and caused it to explode over Palestinian territory.
The Israeli military said Gaza militants fired a total of five rockets at Israel late Tuesday. It said two were shot down by the “Iron Dome” rocket-defense system, while one fell in an open area and two landed inside Gaza.
The Israeli military responded early Wednesday with a series of airstrikes across Gaza, saying it targeted five concealed rocket launchers, a weapons-manufacturing facility and a “terror activity” site. Palestinian officials said two people were wounded.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military spokesman, said Israel is “determined to act against those that strive to target Israel.”
The area has seen an uptick in violence over the past two weeks since three Israeli teenagers disappeared in the West Bank. Israel has accused Hamas militants, who control Gaza, of being behind the apparent abduction. Hamas has praised the kidnapping, but said it does not know who carried it out.
Israel has been carrying out a broad ground operation in the West Bank, searching for the missing teens and arresting scores of Hamas operatives. There have also been near-daily rocket attacks from Gaza, prompting Israeli airstrikes in retaliation.
No time to laugh, she is a human being. We are not Hamas
how ironic
Lchaim!
״חרבם תבוא בליבם וקשתותם תישברנה״
halevai veiter!
I cannot translate the last comment, but you will lose at this one reader if no. 1 and no. 3 are not removed.
Comments in bad taste and reflect badly on us.
#1 you are probably one who rails against NK but your statement makes you far worse….I’m not NK but am Natruna and the death of a child in this manner is despicable and we should pray for her neshama…or maybe yours.
I would be more sympathetic to the death of this poor little girl if she wasn’t accidentally killed by people who were in the process of trying to kill our little girls and boys. Killing people, even armed enemies, is not something to be taken lightly and certainly not a laughing matter. Folks, like #’s 1 and 3 wouldn’t find an event like this so risible if they had any familiarity with war besides the movies.
The photo will likely win next year’s best, showing how Israel brutally murders the poor innocent Palestinians
Anyway Arabs killing Arabs is no chidush
wow, true colors being shown. Laughing at the death of an innocent child. Are you really that much better than the “evil” arabs?
terrible that a child should die> my heart goes out to her mother