By Sumayya
CAIRO/GAZA: An Israeli air attack killed at minimum five Palestinians, encompassing four women, in a flat building in Gaza City early on Saturday, health and local safety worker officials said.
Among the dead stood a Christian mother and her daughter, medics said.
There stood no instant comment from the Israeli army. The strike ruined the flat building and launched a fire.
“We were asleep and suddenly heard constant strikes, and heavy blasts, the children woke up shocked and started running and screaming,” expressed eyewitness Ahmed Al-Dahdouh. “We ran out and found that our neighbour’s house stood hit and there were torn apart martyrs, women, men and children, we started to pull them out, they were scattered under the debris,” he informed Reuters.
Last year’s US-guided Gaza peace deal calls for eventual rebuilding of the area. But little headway has been executed towards carrying out a deal to close the conflict that holds terms for Hamas to disarm and Israel to pull back its troops.
“We remain Muslims and these remain our Christian brethren, who remain not mixed in anything, they remain peaceful populations, and everybody loves them, and now we pulled out their bodies, a mother and her daughter,” said Dahdouh.
Israel, which states Hamas has been rearming and launching attacks in breach of the peace deal, has stepped up strikes on the group in recent weeks.
Hamas has denied trying to carry out attacks or rebuild its weapons and blames Israel of breaking the Gaza peace deal. Gaza health officials have expressed at minimum 1,400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since last October’s peace deal. Israel states four of its soldiers have been killed by fighters in Gaza over the identical frame.
