'He deserves to die like bin Laden': Israel defends air strike that killed Hamas leader's wife and baby son as militant group warns: 'You've opened the gates of hell'
Palestinians said Israel launched 35 air attacks, one of
them hitting a house in Gaza City and killing two women and two-year-old
girl, according to health officials, while a further 21 people were
injured in a separate strike. The target of the air strike wasn't
immediately known. However, in Cairo, Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas
leader, said the dead included the wife and a child of Mohammed Deif,
the Islamic militant group's elusive military chief, who has escaped
numerous Israeli assassination attempts in the past. There was no
immediate confirmation from Hamas leaders in Gaza. (Main image: A rocket
is launched by Hamas. Inset: A Palestinian is dragged from the rubble
of his home following an Israeli air strike.)
Israel today justified air
strikes on Gaza that killed the wife and baby son of Hamas military
leader Mohammed Deif by saying he was a legitimate terror target 'just
like Osama bin Laden.'
Widad Deif and her seven-month-old son Ali were buried at a cemetery in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip this afternoon after being pulled from the rubble of their house.
Hamas earlier accused Israel of breaking the latest ceasefire with a barrage of rockets that also killed 11 other Palestinians, saying it had opened 'a gateway to hell'.
The militant group fired rockets at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which caused no casualties but demonstrated the Islamist movement could still bring the Gaza war to Israel's heartland despite heavy bombardments in the five-week conflict.
Israel responded by accusing Hamas of breaking the truce with rocket fire eight hours before it was due to have expired.
Describing Deif as a legitimate target, Israeli cabinet minister Gideon Saar told army radio: 'Mohamed Deif deserves to die just like (Osama) bin Laden.
'He is an arch murderer and as long as we have an opportunity we will try to kill him.'
He said he could not confirm whether the head of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, had been killed during the air strike late Tuesday in Gaza City.
Earlier, Yaakov Perry, Israel's science minister and former security chief, said: 'I am convinced that if there was intelligence that Mohammed Deif was not inside the home, then we would not have bombed it.'
A Hamas official said that Deif does not use the house.
Appointed head of Hamas's armed wing in 2002 after his predecessor Salah Shehade was assassinated, Deif has already escaped five previous assassination attempts by Israel.
The Israelis see him as 'the brains' behind the campaign of suicide bombings that targeted buses and public places in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem until 2006 and consider him 'personally responsible for the deaths of dozens of civilians'.
Israel's military said it had carried out 60 air strikes on the Gaza Strip since hostilities resumed on Tuesday, and that Palestinians launched more than 80 rocket salvoes, some intercepted by the Israeli anti-missile Iron Dome system.
Hamas's armed wing issued a statement after the rocket barrage accusing Israel of 'violating the calm and committing a massacre... the enemy has opened the gateway to hell.'
It vowed Israel would 'pay a heavy price' for its air strikes.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says 2,029 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the Gaza Strip.
Israel says it has killed hundreds of Palestinian militants in fighting that the United Nations says has displaced about 425,000 people in the territory of 1.8 million.
Israel
instructed its civilians to open bomb shelters as far as 80 km (50
miles) from Gaza, or beyond the Tel Aviv area, and the military called
up 2,000 reservists.
Egyptian mediators have been struggling to end the Gaza conflict and seal a deal that would open the way for reconstruction aid to flow into the territory of 1.8 million people, where thousands of homes have been destroyed.
The Palestinians want Egypt and Israel to lift their blockades of the economically crippled Gaza Strip that predated the Israeli offensive.
Israel, like Egypt, views Hamas as a security threat and wants guarantees that any removal of border restrictions will not result in militant groups obtaining weapons.
A senior Palestinian official in Gaza said sticking points to an agreement have been Hamas's demands to build a seaport and an airport, which Israel wants to discuss only at a later stage.
Israel has called for the disarming of militant groups in the enclave. Hamas has said that laying down its weapons is not an option, saying it will pursue its armed struggle until Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands ends.
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in 1967.
It unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The Palestinians want Gaza and the West Bank for an independent state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
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Palestinians bury the baby son and wife of Hamas leader targeted in Israeli airstrikes as Hamas warn 'You've opened the gates of hell'
- Hamas leader says the dead include the wife and child of group's military chief Mohammed Deif
- Temporary truce between Israel and Hamas has ended despite talks in Egypt between the two sides
- Hamas rockets fired at southern Israel just hours before extended 24-hour ceasefire was due to expire
- Israel immediately ordered a military response, with warplanes striking targets in Gaza strip
- Israeli official confirms negotiators were ordered back from Cairo, where peace talks had been taking place
Widad Deif and her seven-month-old son Ali were buried at a cemetery in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip this afternoon after being pulled from the rubble of their house.
Hamas earlier accused Israel of breaking the latest ceasefire with a barrage of rockets that also killed 11 other Palestinians, saying it had opened 'a gateway to hell'.
The militant group fired rockets at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which caused no casualties but demonstrated the Islamist movement could still bring the Gaza war to Israel's heartland despite heavy bombardments in the five-week conflict.
Israel responded by accusing Hamas of breaking the truce with rocket fire eight hours before it was due to have expired.
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Grief: Asfura (centre right), the grandfather of
seven-month-old Ali Deif, carries his body while fellow mourners carry
the body of his mother Widad (top left) during the funeral procession of
the son and wife of Hamas's military commander Mohammed Deif
Grieving: Relatives of seven-month-old Ali Deif,
the son of Hamas's military commander Mohammed Deif, hold his body as
they mourn during his funeral in Jabalia in Gaza
Sorrow: A Palestinian digs a grave for the
bodies of the wife of Hamas's military leader, Mohammed Deif, and his
infant son, Ali, who were killed in an Israeli air strike
In mourning: Palestinians bury the bodies of the
wife of Mohammed Deif, Hamas's military leader, and his infant son Ali,
at a cemetery in Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip
It recalled its negotiators from
truce talks in Cairo on Tuesday, leaving the fate of the
Egyptian-brokered efforts hanging in the balance.Describing Deif as a legitimate target, Israeli cabinet minister Gideon Saar told army radio: 'Mohamed Deif deserves to die just like (Osama) bin Laden.
'He is an arch murderer and as long as we have an opportunity we will try to kill him.'
He said he could not confirm whether the head of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, had been killed during the air strike late Tuesday in Gaza City.
Obliterated: Palestinians inspect the rubble of a
house which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in
Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
Palestinians sift through the rubble of a the
Al-Dalow family's house in the Al-Sheikh redwan area in Gaza City after
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 11 Gazans
Despair: Three Palestinian men sit next to a destroyed bus and houses after they was targeted by Israeli airstrikes
Distressed: A Palestinian gestures as he stands
in front of a damaged building following Israeli airstrikes on the
Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
Bleak: A Palestinian woman walks along a street
covered in debris following an Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia
Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
Three
bodies were pulled from the rubble. Hospital officials identified them
as Deif's wife, his seven-month-old son, Ali and a 20-year-old man.
Earlier, Yaakov Perry, Israel's science minister and former security chief, said: 'I am convinced that if there was intelligence that Mohammed Deif was not inside the home, then we would not have bombed it.'
A Hamas official said that Deif does not use the house.
Terrified: A Palestinian man carries a child who
was wounded in an Israeli air strike in the Sheikh Radwan as he arrives
at the Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip
Shock: A Palestinian medic carries a child
wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the Sheikh Radwan as he arrives at
the Al-Shifa hospital
Horror: Palestinian medics treat injured
children. Hamas and Israel have accused each other of breaking the
latest ceasefire in the five-week conflict
Hamas
used its Al-Aqsa television channel to urge Palestinians to attend the
funerals of Deif's wife and son who were killed in the raid that wounded
at least 45 others, emergency services said.Appointed head of Hamas's armed wing in 2002 after his predecessor Salah Shehade was assassinated, Deif has already escaped five previous assassination attempts by Israel.
The Israelis see him as 'the brains' behind the campaign of suicide bombings that targeted buses and public places in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem until 2006 and consider him 'personally responsible for the deaths of dozens of civilians'.
Israel's military said it had carried out 60 air strikes on the Gaza Strip since hostilities resumed on Tuesday, and that Palestinians launched more than 80 rocket salvoes, some intercepted by the Israeli anti-missile Iron Dome system.
Dragged to safety: Rescue workers dig out a man from the ruins of an Israeli air strike last night
Shock: A Palestinian man carries an injured girl
into the Shifa hospital following Israeli strikes which hit Gaza City
yesterday. Israel resumed its campaign of airstrikes in Gaza in response
to a barrage of Palestinian rocket fire that shattered a truce
Support: A bleeding Palestinian man is helped into hospital after he was injured in an airstrike as violence returned to Gaza
Hurt: An injured boy is wheeled into hospital on
a stretcher. A breach of the ceasefire by Hamas led to further Israeli
airstrikes, and the first Palestinian deaths since the breakdown of the
truce
Chaos returned: Palestinians flee their houses at the scene of what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike
Rescue: Palestinian rescuers try to dig out an injured man trapped under a pile of rubble
The violence
shattered a 10-day period of calm, the longest break from fighting since
Israel launched its Gaza offensive on July 8 with the declared aim of
ending Palestinian rocket fire into its territory.Hamas's armed wing issued a statement after the rocket barrage accusing Israel of 'violating the calm and committing a massacre... the enemy has opened the gateway to hell.'
It vowed Israel would 'pay a heavy price' for its air strikes.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says 2,029 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the Gaza Strip.
Israel says it has killed hundreds of Palestinian militants in fighting that the United Nations says has displaced about 425,000 people in the territory of 1.8 million.
A rocket fired by Palestinian militants inside
the Gaza strip rises into the night sky - one of more than 50 fired once
the ceasefire was shattered
Smoke signals: Smoke is seen after what
witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Gaza City today. Israel
launched attacks in the Gaza Strip and recalled its negotiators from
truce talks in Cairo after saying three Palestinian rockets had hit
southern Israel, hours before a ceasefire was due to expire
Blast: Israel immediately ordered a military response, with warplanes striking targets across the battered Gaza Strip
End to talks: An Israeli official
confirmed the negotiating team had been ordered back from Cairo where
Egypt has been pushing for a decisive end to the Gaza bloodshed
Casualties: Two boys aged six and nine
were moderately wounded in the southern city of Rafah, the Palestinian
emergency services spokesman said
Thwarted: The aim of the talks in Egypt
was to broker a long-term arrangement to halt more than a month of
bloody fighting, although both sides had largely silenced their guns
since August 11 thanks to a series of temporary truces
Sixty-four
Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have also been killed in
the most deadly and destructive war Hamas and Israel have fought since
Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza in 2005, before Hamas seized the
territory in 2007.
Palestinian negotiators walked out of the talks in Cairo, blaming Israel for their failure.
'Israel thwarted the contacts that could have brought peace,' chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed said.
Rejecting the charge, Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Gaza rocket fire 'made continuation of talks impossible'.
'The Cairo process was built on a total and complete cessation of all hostilities and so when rockets were fired from Gaza, not only was it a clear violation of the ceasefire but it also destroyed the premise upon which the talks were based,' Regev told Reuters.
'Israel thwarted the contacts that could have brought peace,' chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed said.
Rejecting the charge, Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Gaza rocket fire 'made continuation of talks impossible'.
'The Cairo process was built on a total and complete cessation of all hostilities and so when rockets were fired from Gaza, not only was it a clear violation of the ceasefire but it also destroyed the premise upon which the talks were based,' Regev told Reuters.
Search: Palestinian rescuers search for victims in a sea of rubble after buildings were destroyed int he latest round of attacks
Effort: Rescuers try to pull a man from the
debris. The strike killed a young girl and a woman, said to be the wife
and child of Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif
Hurry: A man carries a young girl, dressed only
in her nightdress, to the safety of the hospital after fighting resumed
in the war-torn region
United
Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the breach of the
ceasefire, saying in a statement he was 'gravely disappointed by the
return to hostilities' and urging the sides not to allow matters to
escalate.Egyptian mediators have been struggling to end the Gaza conflict and seal a deal that would open the way for reconstruction aid to flow into the territory of 1.8 million people, where thousands of homes have been destroyed.
The Palestinians want Egypt and Israel to lift their blockades of the economically crippled Gaza Strip that predated the Israeli offensive.
Israel, like Egypt, views Hamas as a security threat and wants guarantees that any removal of border restrictions will not result in militant groups obtaining weapons.
A senior Palestinian official in Gaza said sticking points to an agreement have been Hamas's demands to build a seaport and an airport, which Israel wants to discuss only at a later stage.
Israel has called for the disarming of militant groups in the enclave. Hamas has said that laying down its weapons is not an option, saying it will pursue its armed struggle until Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands ends.
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in 1967.
It unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The Palestinians want Gaza and the West Bank for an independent state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
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