Dickinson Press · 7 August 2022
CP-2022-050
Air strikes, rocket attacks hit Gaza
Attacks push countries into second day of fighting
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell, Reuters
Transcribed from the clipping
“GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the militant Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, killing at least six people, including four children… At least 24 Palestinians, including six children, have been killed and 203 wounded during the two days of firing, according to the Gaza health ministry.… Hamas said the children were among the dead from a blast close to the Jabalya refugee camp and blamed Israel. The Israeli military denied it was responsible, saying the explosion was caused by a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch. It distributed a video which appeared to show a rocket being launched from Gaza at night and then veering immediately off course down into a built-up area. Reuters could not independently verify the footage… Around 2.3 million Palestinians are packed into the narrow coastal Gaza Strip… The United States fully supported Israel’s right to defend itself.”
Photograph caption
Shahir, 1 of 4 disabled Palestinian siblings from Shamalakh family, is assisted near the rubble of their home Saturday after it was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, amid Israel-Gaza fighting, in Gaza City.
Context added by this archive
He is named, which is rare in this thread, and the photograph shows five men lifting his wheelchair over what is left of the house he and his three disabled siblings lived in.
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"Air strikes, rocket attacks hit Gaza," Dickinson Press, 7 August 2022. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-050. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-050
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