Thursday, January 15, 2009

During the night, Israeli aircraft attacked 70 targets in Gaza


During the night on Thursday, January 15, the Israeli air force attacked some 70 goals in the Gaza Strip. According to the Associated Press, support the ground troops have also provided naval forces. During the night fighting, in which up to 35 Palestinian militants were injured and were hospitalized 11 IDF soldiers. The Palestinian side has reported ten dead.

Morning, January 15, continued firing of rockets into Israeli territory from Gaza. All 12 were fired Qassam-type rockets, according to preliminary data, no victims and destruction.

Large forces of infantry and armored vehicles operating in south-west of Gaza city of Tel al-Hawa, where there are many residential and office buildings.

Smoke rises above the neighborhood of fires since last night not smolkayut shooting and explosions, thousands of city residents, according to eyewitnesses, leaving their homes. Minsk residents said that the past night has become the worst for them since the beginning of the Israeli operation.

On the night the victims of the fighting were at least 13 Palestinians, five of them killed in the shelling of homes in the northern sector, said the representative of the Ministry of Health. Another 15 bodies were found when parsing the ruins left behind from previous bombings. A total of 20 days of fighting killed, according to doctors, more than 1040 Palestinians, injured more than 4,8 thousand.

The fighting go hand in hand with attempts to find a political solution to the conflict. Yesterday, it was reported that Hamas welcomed the Egyptian proposal for truce in the Gaza Strip, and soon representatives of the Palestinian side has publicly expressed his agreement and support for the truce.