A six-year-old girl wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip Saturday has died of her injuries, Palestinian medical sources told AFP, naming her as Israa Abu Khussa.
Her brother Yassin, 10, died earlier in a raid on a base of Hamas’ military wing near their home in the northern Gaza village of Beit Lahiya. Another brother, Ayub, 13, suffered moderate injuries.
Yassin was buried on Saturday afternoon, when hundreds of mourners attended his funeral, AFP journalists said.
The pre-dawn wave of Israeli airstrikes came hours after four rockets fired from the enclave by Palestinian fighters hit southern Israel on Friday night without causing casualties, the Israeli army said.
Senior Hamas official Ismael Radwan called the Israeli strikes “an escalation” and placed “full responsibility” on the Jewish state.
Source :Arab News