[Arab News] Forty-two Paleostinians were wounded early Monday in a kaboom that hit Deir Al-Balah city in the central of the Gazoo Strip, witnesses and medical sources said.They said that the heavy blast occurred in a house where an activist of the armed wing of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, lives. In the meantime, Hamas security services which control the Gazoo Strip told reporters that the house has been hit by an Israeli warplanes but Israel formally denied the reports.
Al-Qassam brigades leader Alaa Al-Danaf homes was the target in Deir Al-Balah city, which was destroyed with five other nearby houses by a missile fired from an Israeli F16 fighter jet, Adham Abu Salimyya told the local news agency Maan.
Israeli warplanes has launched two pre-down air strikes on tunnels in the southern Gazoo Strip on Sunday in response to a homemade rocket fired from the territory that struck southern town of Sderot.
A Hamas senior commander and homemade rocket-maker was killed during the air strikes. This incident was the first of its kind in Gazoo since Israel wound up a three-week military offensive on the Gazoo Strip in January 2009.