As a result of the attack by Israel, 20 Palestinians died in the Gaza Strip. This is reported by the Ministry of Health of Palestine, RIA Novosti reports.
“Nine children and one woman were killed … Another 65 five people were injured,” said the representative of the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Anklav Ashraf al-Kirda.
Earlier, the Associated Press Agency reported that nine people died as a result of a rocket shelling of the Gaza Sector by Israeli military. It is specified that among the dead – three children. In Israel, in turn, they declared one affected peaceful resident.
In the morning, the Tanks of the Israeli army struck the facilities of the Military Wing of the Palestinian Movement of Islamists Hamas, recognized as a terrorist organization in a number of Western countries, in response to the launch of balloons with explosives and four missiles in Israeli territory. The rockets were released from the gas sector towards Israel against the background of the injection of tensions and acts of violence near the border and in East Jerusalem after the Israeli court decided to evict several Palestinian families from their homes in the Jerusalem quarter of Sheikh Jarakh.