Gazans Killed By Detonation of Israeli Rocket Found in Rubble

The Gaza Strip, with which Israel fought a devastating 50-day war last summer, and the West Bank are only 60 kilometres (40 miles) apart but separated by politics and Israeli territory. It remains unclear why the family members were at the site at the time of the blast.

Last week, the prisoners were moved from Section 10 to Section 41 of the jail without being allowed to take any of their belongings with them, the Prisoner’s Center for Studies said but the Israel’s prison administration had promised to return their belongings on Wednesday.

The last rocket to hit Israel was on July 16 and was answered within hours by an Israeli air strike.

The Omar Brigades group is responsible for a growing number of rocket attacks, and hopes to spark a new conflict that will weaken Gaza’s rulers and enable it to fill the resulting power vacuum.

Al-Qidra told PNN that four members of the Abu-Nqera family were killed, and 30 others were wounded, four of which suffer critical injuries.

Israeli naval boats Sunday opened machine gunfire on Palestinian fishing boats offshore the city of Gaza, according to WAFA correspondent.

In recent months, groups more radical than Hamas, which calls for the destruction of Israel within its charter, have lashed out at Gaza’s Islamist government for failing to implement a strict version of Islamic law and upholding a ceasefire.

With peace talks stalled since April 2014, grassroots violence has simmered in the West Bank and adjacent East Jerusalem, among territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and where Palestinians seek statehood.

At the scene of Thursday’s explosion, eyewitnesses also could not confirm the cause of the explosion, giving conflicting testimony.

Israeli navy and troops routinely open fire on Palestinian fishermen sailing within the six-nautical-miles zone and farmlands along the border, flagrantly violating the ceasefire deal that was reached in August 2014. “I lost consciousness and found myself in hospital”.

A Hamas military court in the Gaza Strip on Thursday sentenced a Palestinian to be hanged to death after he was found guilty of collaborating with Israel, a court source said.

“Today, our message to the occupier is very clear: We will not accept a blockade,”said Mahmud Zahar, a senior Hamas leader”.