Dubai – Masaader News
A fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza brought with it a growing death, reports that six Palestinians, including a pregnant mother and a baby, had been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian enclave and one Israeli man killed as more than 450 rockets and projectiles were fired into southern Israel from Gaza, according to The Washington Post.
Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said based on the army’s intelligence it appeared that the pregnant mother and the baby were killed by Hamas’s own rockets and not Israel, though he offered no further proof. The country’s Iron Dome Defense system had saved countless lives in Israel, intercepting at least 150 of the rockets and projectiles that had been fired by Palestinian militant factions since Saturday morning, he said.
The flare-up, the most severe in months, looked set to threaten Egyptian and international attempts to forge a long-term truce arrangement between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza.