Pregnant Palestinian woman, child killed in Israeli airstrike

Yehiya Hassan cries with the bodies of his two-year-old daughter and wife at their funeral in the Gaza Strip

A pregnant Palestinian woman and her child have been killed as Israeli jets carry out multiple raids on the besieged Gaza Strip. 

According to reports, one of the attacks, in which three others were also injured, resulted in the collapse of a home in northern Gaza, early on Sunday.

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The child, a three-year-old girl, was also killed along with her mother, 30-year-old Noor Hassan, and to-be-born sibling.

Israel normally claims that such strikes are carried out in retaliations for rockets fired from the besieged territory towards Israel.

This time, an Israeli military spokesperson confirmed the attacks, claiming they targeted an alleged weapons manufacturing site belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in response to rocket fire from Gaza.

Tensions have recently been running high between Israelis and Palestinians.

Last year, Israel launched 50 days of military attacks against the Gaza Strip. The war started in early July last year and ended on August 26, 2014 with a truce that took effect after indirect negotiations in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children, were killed in the 2014 Israeli onslaught. Over 11,100 others – including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people – were also injured.

Source : Press TV

Israel accused of 'deliberately killing' Palestinians

Rights groups say Israel is using excessive force against unarmed Palestinian civilians

 in the recent wave of violence.

Israel's government is facing serious questions over its use of force in the latest outbreak of violence with protesters after a number of videos appeared online showing soldiers shooting at Palestinians.

Amnesty International told Al Jazeera on Sunday that some of the recorded incidents amounted to "extrajudicial killings", while Human rights Watch was "strongly concerned" by Israel's "indiscriminate and even deliberate" use of fire on demonstrators.

"These are extrajudicial killings against unarmed civilians," Mariam Farah, the spokesperson for Amnesty International in Israel, said.

On Friday, a video emerged showing a number of Israeli soldiers surrounding a young Palestinian woman allegedly holding a knife before they shot her with live bullets multiple times. Israa Ayed, 29, was critically injured.

Palestinian teenager Fadi Alloun was shot and killed last week. He was running away 

after he allegedly tried to stab an Israeli. His family denies he tried to hurt anyone. 

On September 22, a young Palestinian woman died of her wounds after being shot by Israeli troops at a checkpoint in the West Bank.

Source : Al - Jazeera

Published on Oct 5, 2015

Palestinian boy shot dead in the West Bank during clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli army. Report by Asana Greenstreet.