IDF kills 12 Palestinians in Gaza

VIDEO - Twelve Palestinians, including a senior member of Islamic Jihad's rocket unit and a child, were killed in separate IDF attacks and gun battles with Israeli forces throughout the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Two IDF soldiers were lightly injured during one of the gun battles in the northern Gaza Strip. The two fired towards Palestinian gunmen from within a tank, and were injured by an antitank missile fired towards them. Palestinian medics and witnesses said that in the early hours of Wednesday morning Israeli forces killed a gunman from the Islamic Jihad group during a raid against gunmen in south Gaza. The man who was killed was later identified as 20-year-old Di Abu Daka. Body of Raad Fanuneh evacuated (Photo: AFP) Two more gunmen were killed in clashes with IDF soldiers near Khan Younis. Another Palestinian was killed and several others were injured in an Israel Air Force missile attack on a vehicle in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sajaiyeh, sources in the Strip said. Islamic Jihad identified the man killed in the attack as Raad Fanuneh, a senior official in the organization’s military wing. An Islamic Jihad member said Fanuneh was a senior commander in the group’s rocket unit and was arrested in the past by the IDF and the Palestinian Authority. “This is a major blow for us,” he said. Israeli military officials denied that the gunman was killed from the air. The al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, said it would launch a terror attack in Israel in retaliation. The IDF denied the report. It was also reported that three Palestinians were killed from an IDF tank shell in Gaza City, sources said. Vehicle after IAF strike (photo: Reuters) According to the reports, the three Palestinians, two Hamas members and a child, were members of the same family. Palestinian sources later reported of another IDF attack in Sajaiyeh, in which a teenage boy and three other people were killed. Several other people were wounded in the attack, they said. The Palestinians said the attack was carried out by an Israeli aircraft and targeted a residential building, but the army denied the claims. At around 2:30 pm the Palestinians reported that an Izz al-Din al-Qassam operative was killed in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sajaiyeh. IDF sources confirmed that Givati Brigade, as well as Armor and Engineering Corps forces were operating in the northern Strip, near the Karni crossing, and near the Sufa crossing in the south. However, they The operations were carried out to locate terror cells, the army said. Palestinian medics said two more Islamic Jihad militants were wounded in gun battles between Israeli troops and gunmen. The number of military raids against Palestinian militants in Gaza has increased since the Islamist Hamas group took over the territory by force this month. Israel pulled its forces and settlers out of the area in 2005. Israeli soldiers raided the home of an Islamic Jihad gunman in the West Bank on Tuesday. A Palestinian security official had reported a militant from the group had been killed but said on Wednesday the man was wounded and alive. Reuters and Hanan Greenberg contributed to the report

IDF kills 12 Palestinians in Gaza

(Video) Sources in Strip say heavy exchanges of fire between IDF forces and gunmen leave 12 Palestinians dead, among them a child and a senior member of Islamic Jihad's rocket unit. Two Israeli soldiers injured