Gaza, January 09: The body of a Palestinian, who lost his life in an overnight Israeli airstrike on Friday, has been removed from a Rafah tunnel in the south of the Gaza Strip.
It brings to three the number of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli attack early on Friday.
According to Hamas officials and witnesses, Israeli aircraft rocketed targets close to Gaza City and just outside the southern town of Khan Younis and Rafah on the Egyptian border, early Friday.
Several others are feared to be still trapped inside the ruins.
Meanwhile, Israeli planes dropped thousands of leaflets over northern Gaza and Gaza City on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported. The leaflets bore telephone numbers and email addresses, urging people to inform the Israeli army of any activities by the Palestinians in the border areas.
Abu Obeida, Spokesman for Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam brigade, described the latest Israeli ploy as a cowardly move to scare Gazans, “which cannot happen.”
Israeli warplanes frequently launch air raids over the Gaza Strip, mostly pounding civilian areas.
——Agencies