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December 29, 2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli warships bombarded the headquarters of the Palestinian presidency on Monday morning in Gaza City.
The compound is known as Al-Muntada. No casualties were immediately reported in that attack.
According to Muawiya Hassanein, the director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestinian Health Ministry, the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 313.
Several dead and injured are reportedly still under the debris of collapsed buildings.
Israeli air forces launched on Sunday night and Monday morning several sorties against targets in the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring several people including women and children.
In Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes destroyed a mosque, killing at least seven people. In another sortie on a house in Jabalia, five people from the Ba’lousha family were killed, including children.
Israeli forces also fired after midnight several missiles at the girls' dormitory in the Islamic University in Tal Al-Hawa in southern Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said they heard five missiles fired from what they believed was an F16 warplane.
Another airstrike targeted Gaza's port, severely damaging it.
Two people were killed in a strike on a car in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip and a terminal used for fishermen in the north.
Meanwhile, a mosque in Jabalia called Abu Bakr As-Siddiq was destroyed and initial news reports indicated that there are casualties. |
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