10 Palestinians killed as Israeli strike hits Gaza park
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A Gaza park was attacked yesterday, killing at least 10 Palestinians, including children, a Palestinian health official said. Israelis and the Palestinians traded blame for the strike.
Children were playing on a swing when the strike hit the park in the Shati refugee camp on the edge of Gaza City, said Ayman Sahabani, head of the emergency room at nearby Shifa Hospital. He gave the death toll and said 46 people also were wounded.
The strike on the park occurred a few minutes after the hospital’s outpatient clinic was hit, leaving several people wounded. Camera crews were prevented from filming the area of impact at Shifa.
Gaza’s police operations room, Civil Defense and Sahabani said the deaths and injuries were caused by Israeli air strikes.
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, an Israeli army spokesman, denied Israel was involved. “This incident was carried out by Gaza terrorists whose rockets fell short and hit the Shifa Hospital and the Beach (Shati) camp,” he insisted.
The strikes occurred on a day of heavy fighting after a temporary humanitarian cease-fire as international efforts intensified to end the three-week war between Israel and Hamas militants.
Israeli jets struck several sites in Gaza and rockets continued to fall on Israel, the Israeli military said, disrupting a relative lull in the Gaza war at the start of a major Muslim holiday for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
The United Nations yesterday called for an “immediate” cease-fire in the fighting that has already killed over 1,040 Palestinians, 43 Israeli soldiers and three civilians on the Israeli side. On Sunday, United States President Barack Obama telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push for an immediate end to the conflict.
Earlier, amid an eerie calm, the call to Eid prayer echoed in the southern town of Rafah in the morning. Dozens of worshippers lined the rows of a severely destroyed mosque, with a collapsed roof and missing walls. Many of the faithful looked somber during the traditional holiday sermon.
In Gaza City, dozens of men prayed in the courtyard of a United Nations school surrounded by school desks. Children and women stood on a higher level overlooking the prayer.
“We are suffering and will suffer but we need our rights, our houses, our lands and our farms to return to us and we will not accept living a miserable life,” said Abu Saber Jalees, who fled fighting to seek shelter at the school.
Amid a slowdown in the fighting, rescue teams uncovered five bodies in a village east of Khan Younis, said Saed al-Saoudi, the commander of the Civil Defense in Gaza. Earlier yesterday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said it deployed 15 ambulances to the area to search for bodies amid the rubble.
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