GAZA CITY – More than a dozen Palestinians, including a minor girl, werekilled in fresh airstrikes launched by Israeli warplanes on Gaza strip onFriday, in a major attack since the occupants carried out massacre in Gazain June last year.
The health ministry in Gaza, according to reports, said at least 15 people,including a five-year-old girl, were killed in the attack that has leftnearly 100 people injured.
It feared that causalities due to Israeli raids could increase as effortsare underway to retrieve people from a building targeted in an airstrike.
Taysir al-Jabari, a commander of the al-Quds Brigades also died in an airraid on an apartment in the Palestine Tower in the centre of Gaza City,reports said.
In response to the aggression, rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israelbut they were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system.
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In a statement, Hamas said that Israel has once again committed war crimesby attacking residential buildings.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned Israeliairstrikes on Gaza, stating that the killing of a minor girl is a clearevidence of Israel’s terrorism.
“If impunity & barbarism had a face, it would have been that of Israel,which has targeted Palestinians without any care for consequences. Pakistanstrongly condemns Israeli airstrikes,” he wrote on Twitter.
