{"id":9642,"date":"2014-06-27T10:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9642"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:57:34","slug":"israel-tank-fire-injures-5-palestinians-including-a-pregnant-woman-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/israel-tank-fire-injures-5-palestinians-including-a-pregnant-woman-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel tank fire injures 5 Palestinians, including a pregnant woman in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Israeli tank fire has reportedly injured five\u00a0people in the Gaza Strip as Tel Aviv intensifies its acts of aggression against the besieged Palestinian territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Ashraf al-Qidra, the spokesman for the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza, said Israeli military tanks fired shells into the agricultural areas of the southern city of\u00a0Khan Yunis, wounding five Palestinians, including a pregnant woman, early on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">According to witnesses, the new Israeli assault damaged two mosques as well as a number of homes in the area. The Israeli military has also confirmed the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Over the past days, Israeli forces have stepped up their aerial assaults on the besieged Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">On June 24, Israeli warplanes launched seven separate airstrikes on the blockaded Palestinian land. Two people were reportedly injured in the assaults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The new wave of attacks by the Israeli regime against Palestinians comes after Tel Aviv said three Israeli settlers had gone missing in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) on June 12.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel has accused Hamas of kidnapping the settlers, but the Palestinian resistance movement has categorically denied the accusations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier this week, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas official, said the Palestinian\u00a0resistance movement would retaliate against any Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The Israeli military frequently targets Palestinians along Gaza\u2019s border, which has remained literally cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">In November 2012, the Israeli regime launched an eight-day war on Gaza. Over 160 Palestinians were killed and some 1,200 others were wounded in the Israeli offensive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/06\/27\/368854\/israel-tank-fire-injures-5-palestinians\/\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli tank fire has reportedly injured five\u00a0people in the Gaza Strip as Tel Aviv intensifies its acts of aggression against the besieged Palestinian territory. Ashraf al-Qidra, the spokesman for the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza, said Israeli military tanks fired shells into the agricultural areas of the southern city of\u00a0Khan Yunis, wounding five Palestinians, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[331,953,136,1425,163],"class_list":["post-9642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-lectures","tag-gaza","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}