By Xinhua
Gaza : A 5-month-old infant was killed and three civilians were wounded on Wednesday night in an Israeli airstrike on a building belongs to deposed Hamas government in Gaza, medics and witnesses said.
Mo’aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance service in the ministry of health said that a 5-month-old baby shortly died of his sustained wounds, adding that three more civilians were moderately injured.
Israeli Apache attack helicopter gunship destroyed by three air-to-ground missiles the building of the interior ministry in the deposed Hamas government in Gaza City, witnesses said.
They added that three consecutive explosions were heard in the northeastern part of the city. The building of Hamas interior office was targeted with three missiles fired by Israeli helicopters.
Medics said that four civilians were lightly to moderately injured, who were treated at Shifa Hospital in the city.
The Israeli strike on the interior office was reactions to dozens of homemade rockets were fired by Palestinian militants at the southern Israeli town of Sderot. One Israeli was killed and four were wounded in the town.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israel also killed 11 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of them are Hamas militants. Hamas retaliated to the killing by launching several rockets at southern Israel.
Palestinian witnesses in Gaza City said that Israeli drones and aircrafts hovered over Gaza City, where several explosions were heard, adding that a blacksmith workshop was destroyed by one Israeli missile.