An Israeli air raid at dawn Tuesday flattened a two-story civilian building in Jabalia to the north of the Gaza Strip and damaging nearby homes wounding 14 Palestinians, including a child, according to local witnesses. They said that the bombardment shattered the wind glasses of nearby buildings and spread panic in lines of children and women.
The Israeli army claimed that the targeted house was one of the Islamic Jihad Movement's headquarters in the northern Gaza Strip area.
Owner of the house Sa'eed Joda said that he received a phone call from the Israeli command asking him to evacuate his home prior to shelling it, which became a new Israeli policy in targeting Palestinian civilian buildings in the Strip.
In a similar raid, Israeli warplanes three hours after targeting the Jabalia house returned and shelled another building in Beit Hanun.
Locals reported that Israeli F-16 warplane fired three missiles at the Nasser Salahuddin Brigades' activist Hussein Abu Oda completely destroying it and damaging nearby houses. Abu Oda said that a phone call asking him to evacuate his home one hour before the raid.
For its part, the Quds Brigades, armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, declared responsibility for firing two Quds-2 missiles at the Nahal Oz settlement east of the Gaza Strip, and said the missile attack was in retaliation to the IOF massacres in lines of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces also wounded on Tuesday eight Palestinians in the West Bank (WB) City of Nablus. Sources said that Israeli army besieged a house in Askar Refugee Camp in the city and partially destroyed it. They opened random fire towards citizens, wounding eight.
According to Wafa, Rafedia Governmental Hospital sources said that four of the wounded were transferred to hospital, two of them hit with metal bullets while the others by rubber-coated metal bullets. The four others were taken to the hospital of Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
Elsewhere, Israeli troops arrested on Tuesday 15 Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Hebron, Qalqilya, and Bethlehem.
