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Israel's Saturday raids against the Gaza Strip are the largest since the 2014 war, an air force official said after strikes at a nightly confrontation with Hamas Palestinian enclave
"These are the most significant offensive strikes since (the operation) protective rim," Brigadier General Tzvika Haimovic told reporters. He was referring to the name given by the Israeli army to his offensive in the summer of 2014 against the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Two Palestinian teenagers lose their lives
Two Palestinian teenagers were killed in a Israeli airstrikes on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, after an overnight confrontation with the Islamist Hamas movement that controls the enclave. The raids, which follow a first round of night-time strikes, come in the aftermath of clashes on the border between Israel and the enclave, where two young Palestinians were killed and more than 200 wounded by Israeli forces. An Israeli soldier was also injured. The Israeli strike that killed two teenagers aged 15 and 16 on Saturday targeted a building in western Gaza City, the health ministry said in the Palestinian enclave. The two youths were in the street at the bottom of this building, empty at the time of the raid, according to this source.
The Israeli army said in a statement that the building was used for military purposes by Hamas. 19659003] Israeli raids on Saturday afternoon also left 15 Palestinians wounded, two in Rafah, in the south, and 13 in Gaza City, according to Palestinian medical sources and the Gaza Ministry of Health. [19659003] The raids continued late Saturday afternoon, according to an AFP correspondent.
According to Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, spokesman for the Israeli army, Saturday's raids are " the most important daytime operation (of the Air Force) in the Gaza Strip since the war of 2014 ". "Hamas has surpbaded the limit with its so-called + return march, which consists in acts of violence, attacks on security fencing, rocket fire against Israeli territory, and balloon and deer launches. "incendiary flights," he said in a teleconference with reporters in the middle of the afternoon.
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