Explosion in Gaza amid fragile ceasefire with Israel

Published time: December 01, 2012 23:26
Edited time: December 02, 2012 14:21
The Gaza Strip (AFP Photo / Marco Longari)

Conflicting media reports coming from Gaza suggest an Israeli strike has hit a residential area, wounding four Palestinians. But others stress it was an industrial accident. This comes amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Gaza.

Gaza-based filmmaker and activist Harry Fear told RT that four Palestinians have been injured in the incident – two of them critically injured with one being announced 'clinically dead' at Shifa Hospital.

The incident in East Deir Al-Balah occurred around 22:00 GMT. Reports from local media suggest it was a tank shelling attack. So far there has been no reaction from Hamas.

Injured Palestinians belonged to one family and have been wounded by shrapnel from tank gunfire while they were outside their homes, reported Palestinian News Agency (WAFA).

Police are investigating the matter.

One of injured man said that it was an Israeli attack and they were 250 meters away from the Israeli border when it occurred, stated Fear after visiting the hospital.

However other reports suggest it could be an industrial incident.

Fear tweeted that it is a “65% reliability” it was a tank shelling on Saturday night, and ended with a tweet saying, "4 news agencies (inc. the 2 most respected local ones) + 2 of the most respected Gazan journalists reported the same Israeli attack tonight."

Relations between Israel and Gaza currently stand on a knife-edge more than a week after the cessation of violence between the two sides. Israel’s eight-day Pillar of Defense campaign in Gaza killed some 169 Palestinians, while Gazan rocket fire left six Israelis dead.

Comments (18)

maylena (unregistered) 03.12.2012 07:01

Apartheid Zionazi Israel's action in the past several days clearly demonstrates that it doesn't want peace with the Palestinians, just their land. It is of the upmost importance that Abbas to take child killing, land stealing, Apartheid Zionazi Israel to ICC for warcrimes and violation of international law. 

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A. Patriot (unregistered) 02.12.2012 20:18

Russia, China in exchange for the Gaza Gas and Oil deposit contracts should actively work with the new Palestinian State, develop their offshore Gas fields and militarily provide protection against the evil, wanton attacks by Apartheid Israeli warships firing on Gaza fishing vessels.

The Satanically evil Zionists leading Apartheid Israel is pushing the ultra outragious E1 land occupation which would block the Palestinian people from traveling to and from Gaza and West Bank without going thru various maze corn-rows of Apartheid Israeli ethnic cleansing corridors of some 50 miles NOW they suddenly withhold 120 million in tax revenue collected for the Palestinian people.

Shame on the filthy rich Oil nations such as the Arabic Emirate, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for not pouring funds and relief supplies into Gaza following the latest bombing campaign on the Palestinian people there.

The new Palestinian State should seek relief by the BRIC's economic foundation and divorce themselves entirely of it's attachments with USA,IMF and Apartheid Israel.

The new Palestinian State should align with the BRIC's nations to promote and seek their sponsorship of the global Boycott, Deinvest and Sanctioning of Apartheid Israel.

The Arabic nations should stand up and financially help fill the void and help the new Palestinian State cut the monetary strings to Apartheid Israel entirely.

The New Palestinian State Leaders should now work 24/7 to join the International Criminal Court as well as work with the BRIC's nations to form a non-Western International Criminal Court and begin processing a tidal wave of War Crimes and Human Rights Crimes by Apartheid Israeli Zionist leaders and military officials which are supported by well evidenced and established evidence, eyewitness's.

As seen by the Nazi hunters, those ZioNazi crimes don't simply disappear, the ZioNazi hunters after conviction in absentia can and will hunt those evil Zionists down and bring them to trial.

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Yadaw 02.12.2012 18:04

Iamthewalrus (unregistered) wrote in #1
What else can be expected of the Zionist terrorists.  They steal other people's land and murder women and children.  Their day is surely coming.
Revel ations 2:9

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