2023-05-09 03:29:00
The territory’s health ministry announced the death of nine people before dawn following strikes by the Israeli army.
By IM with AFP
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NNine people were killed Tuesday, May 9 before dawn in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, said the Ministry of Health of this territory under the control of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. For its part, the Israeli army announced that it had carried out strikes on Palestinian “Islamic Jihad targets” in the Gaza Strip. In Gaza City, an AFP journalist saw the top of a building on fire after the night strikes and ambulances evacuating victims.
Among the dead are women and children, said the ministry without further details on the identity of the dead. In Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, an AFP photographer saw the body of a man identified as Jihad Ghannam, a leader of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Less than a week after the announcement of a truce…
The airstrikes, which began shortly after 02:00 (23:00 GMT) were still underway around 03:50 (00:50 GMT), according to AFP journalists in Gaza, where a new explosion has just been heard east of the city.
They come less than a week after the announcement of a truce obtained following Egyptian mediation after a new escalation of violence between the Israeli army and Islamic Jihad following the death in an Israeli prison. of a leader of this Islamist movement on hunger strike for three months.
The Israeli army announced in press releases that it had “targeted” three leaders of Islamic Jihad, a movement described as “terrorist” by Israel: two in the Gaza Strip, Jihad Ghannam, and Khalil Al-Bahtani, and another in the West Bank , Tareq Ezzdine.
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