Ministry: Boy killed as Israel bombs Gaza City

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Ministry: Boy killed as Israel bombs Gaza City

Published Wednesday 20/06/2012 (updated) 22/06/2012 22:24

Mourners carry the body of Ghalib Irmeilat, 21, killed in an Israeli
airstrike in Rafah on June 20. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A 14-year-old boy was killed Wednesday afternoon as Israel bombed Gaza City in the third day of strikes on the enclave, Gaza's health ministry said.

Momen al-Adam was killed and two people were injured, including Momen's father, in the strike east of the Zaitoun neighborhood, ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said Israeli forces had hit the area.

Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians.

A 2-year-old girl was killed in the same neighborhood on Tuesday evening when militants launched a rocket nearby, witnesses said.

Israel has killed eight Palestinians in Gaza in a series of airstrikes and tank shelling since Sunday evening. Al-Qidra said 17 were injured in the attacks.

Militants have responded to the attacks by firing a barrage of rockets across the border into southern Israel.

Around noon Wednesday a 21-year-old man was killed in an airstrike on Rafah in southern Gaza. The army said in a statement that he was involved in a raid from Egypt's Sinai on the Israeli border on Monday.

Israeli airstrikes killed four men in northern Gaza on Monday and two teenagers were killed by Israeli shelling on Tuesday morning.

Cairo has brokered Gaza truces in the past and an Egyptian official said renewed mediation had secured agreement by Israel and Palestinian factions on Tuesday night.

A Palestinian source accused the Israelis of violating the deal. Israel neither confirmed nor denied there was such deal, and the military said in a statement it would "continue to operate with perseverance and determination against those who use terror against the State of Israel."

Egyptian ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yasser Othman told Ma'an on Wednesday that Egypt was in touch with all parties in order to restore calm.

1 ) Brian Cohen / Israel

20/06/2012 16:22

"Militants have responded to the attacks by firing a barrage of rockets...." No, the militants are the ones causing this in the first place! 2 rockets were fired from Sinai Friday, and then the border attack that killed an innocent Israeli civilian. Since then over 50 rockets have been fired at Israeli civilian areas. The only way to stop the shooting is for the "militants" to be disarmed and for Hamas to agree to peace talks. Hamas refuses. The violence continues because Hamas wants it.

2 ) matt / usa

20/06/2012 16:27

So most rockets are fired from or near crowds of civilians. thats a fact. so its no wonder that civilians are hurt. here is an idea, all groups should gather in an open field, fire as much as you want, and then israel can fire back. i promise that no civilians will be killed

3 ) This is sick / World Citizen

20/06/2012 16:41

Someone out there equip Palestine with an airforce and army! Let's play fair and then see how it feels to bomb Israeli civilians from the air.

4 ) Tibi / Tubas

20/06/2012 18:26

There are so many "better" civilians targets, with large numbers clustered together, that Israel would have chosen, IF warplanes targeted civilians, so:
1- It is UNlikely that Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians,
2- the Boy killed was likely at least near a militant rocket launching squad
(if not part of it), just like
3- the "2-year-old girl killed in the same neighborhood on Tuesday,
when militants launched a rocket nearby," and
4- MAAN STORIES ARE UNBELIEVABLE.

5 ) Arnold / Canada

20/06/2012 20:13

World Citizen # 3. What is sick is Palestinian militants getting bored of the quiet and then firing 40 missiles into Israel. Israel uses her air force to pinpoint attacks. If the IAF wanted they could blast Gaza to smithereens in two hours or less. Maybe what should be done is for the IDF to fire 1 : 1 missiles into Gaza haphazardly and then see where they land. Would that be more equal for you ?

6 ) Sarah / Holland

20/06/2012 20:42

17 juni 2012 Settler killed two Palestinians Israeli Forces Injure Palestinian in Gaza Israeli Navy Opens Fire at Fishermen Boats IOF troops infiltrate into central Gaza IOF soldiers bulldoze Palestinian cultivated land Israeli Authorities Force Palestinian to Demolish His House Nope Palestinians didn't start, it was Israel again.

7 ) Spin / City

20/06/2012 20:54

Gaza City should be called "Spin City." Israel is responsible for everything. Gazans are responsible for nothing. Yes, that is the way to spin it. Peace now!

8 ) Colin Wright / USA

20/06/2012 23:15

To Brian Cohen #1 'No, the militants are the ones causing this in the first place! 2 rockets were fired from Sinai Friday, and then the border attack that killed an innocent Israeli civilian. ' (I) The border attack came from Egypt, but what the hey, right? It'd be so AWKWARD to attack Egypt right now. Kill some Gazans instead. You do realize this is exactly what baboons do?

9 ) Colin Wright / USA

20/06/2012 23:17

To Brian Cohen #1 'No, the militants are the ones causing this in the first place! 2 rockets were fired from Sinai Friday, and then the border attack that killed an innocent Israeli civilian. ' (II) When a baboon is beaten up by a bigger baboon, he doesn't strike back at the bigger baboon -- he goes and finds a smaller baboon and beats up HIM. You people have degenerated to the point where you can't even be compared to other human societies.

10 ) Colin Wright / USA

20/06/2012 23:19

To Arnold #5 'World Citizen # 3. What is sick is Palestinian militants getting bored of the quiet and then firing 40 missiles into Israel.' What is sick is the constant and shameless lying of Zionists like you. 'Quiet' indeed. Those forty missiles came after poor innocent little Israel started flaying Gaza with airstrikes and artillery bombardments, and you know it perfectly well.

11 ) Colin Wright / USA

20/06/2012 23:21

To Spin City #7 'Gaza City should be called "Spin City." Israel is responsible for everything. Gazans are responsible for nothing. Yes, that is the way to spin it.' About right. Absent Zionism, it's unknowable what the Palestinians would be up to by now, but I doubt it would be this. They certainly wouldn't be seeking out and attacking Jews who were living far away.

12 ) Eran / Israel

21/06/2012 00:17

For the life of me I can't figure this out, why every once in a while the Palestinian organizations in Gaza feel the suicidal urge to agitate Israel - don't they ever get enough? Do Lives mean nothing to them, Not even their own people's? How can we hope to make peace with these sort of madmen?

13 ) Colin Wright / USA

21/06/2012 11:01

To Eran #12 'For the life of me I can't figure this out, why every once in a while the Palestinian organizations in Gaza feel the suicidal urge to agitate Israel - don't they ever get enough? Do Lives mean nothing to them, Not even their own people's? How can we hope to make peace with these sort of madmen?' What is the point of lying like this? You don't believe your lies; I don't believe your lies. Why bother?

14 ) Henri / France

21/06/2012 11:44

A Hamas spokesman admitted (BBC report) that the child killed Tuesday in the Zeitun neighbourhood of Gaza, died from the firing of a Palestinian rocket and NOT from an Israeli reply. Even Ma'an reported that fact. Rockets are fired from crowded areas on purpose.

15 ) @ Henri-14 / USA

21/06/2012 19:21

You have restored my faith in the French, where only
rarely is truth accepted, unless it makes Israel look bad.

16 ) southparkbear / usa

22/06/2012 01:52

#15 to extend that to France2, that the 'news' agency that was found liable manufecturing the lie that led to gaza war

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