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GAZA CITY. – Israel continued its air attacks on Gaza yesterday, killing at least 26 Palestinians, including several leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement. More than 80 people have been injured as the Israeli military offensive entered its third day.
Gaza’s health ministry said seven people were killed yesterday, a day after Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory left 15 dead.
Four of those killed yesterday were fighters with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the group said.
Three more deaths were reported following an air attack in the early hours in Khan Younis in the southern part of Gaza.
A 10-year-old Palestinian girl named Layan Madoukh was also killed in a blast at her home in Gaza City in unclear circumstances.
“There is a very high sense of worrying,” Al Jazeera’s Youmna El Sayed, reporting from Gaza City, said.
“Everything is closed; schools, private and public facilities have shut down, and people have limited going out of their homes.” Rana Shubair, a Gaza-based writer, said that the Israeli attacks took them “by surprise completely”. – AL Jazeera
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