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New Israeli raid in Gaza: 12 Palestinians killed, 4 were children (La Repubblica).



GAZA - the tension remains high in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel, where even today continued Qassam rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes. The budget so far is 12 Palestinians killed (including four children) and injured an Israeli, numbers that are added to those of the tragic death toll from yesterday when 13 Palestinians were killed (including a militant in the West Bank) and an Israeli civilian (hit by a Qassam rocket in Sderot).

After the intense bombing in Gaza last night, which cost the life of a Palestinian baby of six months, the Israeli raids have taken an early morning hours, five militants linked to Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees were killed in Gaza City and two more in the refugee camp of Balata, near Nablus, the West Bank. Another Hamas militant died and three others were injured in the attacks near Beit Hanun and Beit Lahia. And four children died during an Israeli air strike carried out against the refugee camp of Jabalia.

Among Palestinians shot dead in Gaza is also the son Khalil al-Haya, head of the Hamas parliamentary group, and personality to the forefront of the Islamic movement. The young man had long been enrolled in the Ezzedin al Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Hamas.

During the night, Israeli missiles targeted against a home's interior ministry of Hamas, in the center of Gaza City, incidentally, destroyed the headquarters dela "PMRS", a non-governmental organization that provides medical care to women , children and the handicapped.

Palestinian militants, who yesterday with a rocket killed an Israeli civilian near the college, "Sapir" in Sderot this morning came back to hit the same area that was previously outside the reach of the Qassam. This time the shrapnel wounded one of the agents of the personal guard of the security minister, Avi Dichter, who were in college to make an inspection in preparation for the visit that Dichter was planning to do in the morning.

Condemnation and concern over the violence was expressed by United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, who expressed in a statement, "the hope that this do not derail the peace process." The events of the last hours, in his opinion, "underlined the urgent need to end the violence" and "must not disrupt the continuation of the political process."

(February 28, 2008) - The Republic