Last night Israeli forces launched a campaign of air raids targeting Gaza, leaving nine martyrs, including a 5-year-old girl, and 55 people injured in addition to the destruction of several stores.
Palestinian militants launched a barrage of rockets hours later as air raid sirens wailed in central and southern Israel, pushing the sides closer to all-out war.
A blast was heard in Gaza City, where smoke poured out of the seventh floor of a tall building on Friday afternoon.
For the second day in a row, the Israeli occupation army continues to launch raids on the Gaza Strip, as part of a military operation that it began on Friday afternoon, against targets that it said belong to the Islamic Jihad movement.
