Israeli fire kills 20 in Gaza after truce fails
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TWENTY Palestinians have been killed and at least 120 wounded by Israeli strikes across Gaza since the collapse of a temporary truce, the emergency services said yesterday.
Among the dead were the wife and infant son of Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, killed when a strike demolished a six-storey house in Gaza City, spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
The latest violence raised the overall death toll in Gaza to at least 2,038, with more than 10,300 people wounded, Qudra said.
Among those killed yesterday were three women, one of them heavily pregnant, and nine children. That number includes the woman's unborn baby, whom medics tried but ultimately failed to save, he said.
Two cousins, Mohammed al-Abeet, 16, and Saher al-Abeet, 11, were killed in an air strike on a house in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, Qudra said.
The violence resumed at around 1300 GMT on Tuesday when three rockets struck southern Israel with the air force hitting back with strikes which continued into yesterday.
The first deadly strike killed Deif’s second wife, Widad, 27, and his seven-month-old son Ali.
Rescue workers yesterday also pulled the bodies of a 48-year-old woman and a 14-year-old boy from the rubble.
Shortly before dawn, an air strike hit a home in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killing eight, among them the pregnant woman, her unborn baby, three children and three men.
Later in the morning, another child, aged four, was killed along with a man in his 20s in a strike on Zeitun in southern Gaza City.
Four other men were killed in three separate strikes, two of whom died when a missile hit their motorcycle in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
Army figures show that since the truce collapsed, Gaza militants have fired 137 rockets over the border, of which 94 hit southern and central Israel while another 24 were shot down.
In the same period, the army hit 92 targets across Gaza, a spokeswoman said.
On the Israeli side, 67 people have died, including 64 soldiers killed in combat and three civilians killed by rocket fire — one of them a Thai national.
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