By NNN-KUNA,
Gaza : Six Palestinians including four children and babies were killed during an Israeli incursion carried out early on Monday in the region of Beit Hanoun in the north of Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
Dr. Mu’aiah Hasanain, in charge of the emergency ward of the Palestinian Health Ministry, told KUNA that the victims included four members of a single family; one year-old Musaab Abu Maateq, his sister Hanaa, 3, brother Saleh, 4 and another sister named Rudaina, aged six.
Mother of the children was also wounded in Israeli artillery attacks that hit the family’s house in the town of Beit Hanoun.
Several other people were wounded in the bombardment.
An old man and another child were killed with gunfire during Israeli military action in the Beit Hanoun region, the sources said, adding that several Palestinians were caught during the operation.
Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Israeli Army said a pair of rockets harmlessly crashed close to the southern Israeli town of Sderot.