“Musa Zaeyter, 31, was killed by shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike in western Biet Lahya in northern Gaza”, ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qedra said.
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Earlier, the Israel army said in a statement that its air forces attacked “a terror cell” that was planting explosives in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning.
A Palestinian protester holds a national flag during clashes with Israeli security forces along the … They give Hamas an ability to infiltrate Israel and carry out strategic attacks involving mass killing, along with an ability to launch missiles from locations concealed within civilian population centers that serve, in effect, as human shields.
Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli research organization that monitors anti-Israel incitement in official Palestinian Authority media outlets, reported that among those at the celebration were top Fatah and Palestinian Authority officials, including Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul, Head of the General Intelligence Services Majed Faraj, and Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Rula Ma’ay’a.
Israeli farmers in the area reportedly were told by the IDF to avoid the Gaza border fence area following the strike because of possible retaliatory gunfire. “Three other Palestinians were injured”.
Hamas last week praised a deadly shooting attack carried out in Tel Aviv on January 1, referring to the assailant as “a beacon for the [Palestinian] generations who will tread the same path”. According to unconfirmed reports from Gaza, the terrorists were hit, possibly killed.
He also said Gaza’s agricultural sector – which depends heavily on gas to run greenhouses, especially since Israel sprayed herbicides to destroy vast swathes of crops near the border as part of a “no-grow zone” – has been further hurt by the gas crisis.
Israeli soldiers on Thursday shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab one of them near the West Bank city of Hebron and, in a separate incident near the town of Nablus, killed a man after he slashed and wounded an army officer, the army said.
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The Israeli aerial bombing coincided with another naval attack targeting the same location.
