By IRNA
Gaza City : As the Security Council was assembling reports came in that Israel continues with air strike on Gaza Strip residential areas killing at least 36 civilians and wounding 100.
Palestine Authority chief Mahmud Abbas said the Israeli raids were “more than a holocaust”.
He was apparently alluding to a statement made on Friday by Israel’s deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai, who said Palestinians risked a “shoah” – the Hebrew word for a big disaster as well as for the Nazi Holocaust.
Khaled Mashaal, Hamas’s exiled leader in Syria, called Israeli actions “the real holocaust”.
The Israeli raids began after a rocket fired by Hamas killed an Israeli student in the southern town of Sderot, the first such death in nine months, on Wednesday.
More than 80 Palestinians have been killed since then in Israeli air raids.