Five Gazans killed by Israeli fire: medics
AFP
Date: 3/22/2011
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Five Palestinians, most of them minors, were killed on Tuesday when Israeli artillery fired on a house in Gaza City, an emergency services spokesman said.
"At least five people died when Israel opened fire on young people who were playing football in Shejaiya" near the Israeli border, Adham Abu Selmiya told AFP, saying "most of them were children."
The ages of the victims were not immediately clear.
The army had no immediate comment on the shooting, which occurred shortly after four Qassam rockets were fired into southern Israel and which was the third such attack on Shejaiya on Tuesday.
"Four rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza, three to the north and one in the south," an Israeli military spokeswoman said. They caused no damage or injuries.
The killings follow days of rising cross–border violence, which has ramped up tensions between Israel and Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers and once again raised fears of a large–scale Israeli military invasion to stamp out rocket fire.
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