Six people killed in Gaza
GAZA: Israel has launched more than 20 raids on targets across the enclave, which by Friday afternoon had killed 11 Gazans – six civilians, four Hamas militants and one policeman. Around 45 people have been wounded.
Israeli warplanes have pounded fresh targets in the southern Gaza Strip, killing six people as a truce declared by the armed groups unravelled even before it could take hold.
The latest deaths came after 24 hours of deadly tit-for-tat violence which was sparked on Thursday when Hamas militants fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus, critically wounding a teenager and lightly injuring the driver.
In the wake of the strikes, the self-declared truce called by Hamas appeared meaningless, with both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claiming mortar and rocket attacks on Israel on Friday.
