Israel tanks, jets continue pounding Gaza
Iran Press TV
Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:21AM GMT
Israeli tanks and warplanes have continued pounding the Gaza Strip for the 14th day, with the death toll among Palestinians rising to 508.
Ashraf al-Kidra, a Gaza Health Ministry official, said on Monday that 20 bodies were retrieved at a home destroyed in an overnight airstrike in Khan Younis.
Israeli tanks also opened fire on a home in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 10 people, including a 9-month-old baby girl, Kidra also said.
Sunday has been the bloodiest day of the two-week Israeli war, as more than 150 Palestinians were killed, including 70 people who were massacred in Shejaiya neighborhood.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said that the regime forces killed at least 10 Palestinian resistance fighters who tunneled into southern Israel to carry out an attack.
It also said that two squads were detected "infiltrating through two tunnels from the northern Gaza Strip," adding an Israeli aircraft targeted one of the squads while soldiers engaged in a gun battle with the other.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it conducted "an operation behind enemy lines in response to the massacre in Shejaiya."
The UN Security Council also held an emergency meeting, expressing "serious concern" about the growing number of the fatalities in Gaza and calling for an immediate end to the conflict.
US President Barack Obama also called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, echoing calls for an "immediate ceasefire."
Some 83,000 Palestinians have taken shelter in some 60 schools across the enclave, which are run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA.
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