Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas continued their attacks with hardness. At night, 14 Palestinians were killed in Gaza. The UN Secretary-General warns of a “full-scale war.”
In response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Air Force has stepped up its attacks on the night of Thursday and killed at least 14 Palestinians.
Most of them had arrived early Thursday morning in an Israeli air attack on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip killed, reported paramedics and security forces.
Since the beginning of the Israeli offensive against targets in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday 68 people have been killed, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. More than 400 were injured, the ministry spokesman said on the night of Friday. About two-thirds of them were civilians.
The extremist Qassam Brigades said they had fired in the last 48 hours 279 rockets at Israel. Other militant groups have launched more than 100 rockets. Israeli warplanes bombed during the two days of the campaign, more than 75 houses in the area on the Mediterranean.
Israel – Hamas Middle East conflict:UN chief warns of ‘war-grown “
The Gaza Strip’m on “knife edge,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in unusually strong terms the situation. The current conflict put the Middle East remains the greatest challenge for years and he was alarmed by the “new wave of violence,” Ban said. The region must not slide into a new “all-out war”.
The UN Security Council will meet on Thursday for a special session on the Middle East conflict. First, Ban will inform the most powerful UN body about the current situation in the Middle East. Thereafter, the Council will advise behind closed doors. Several Arab and Islamic states had such an emergency meeting previously requested.
It is considered unlikely that the UN Security Council in the conflict comes to a common denominator. The U.S., which have as a permanent member veto power, stood behind Israel, but at the same time called for Israelis and Palestinians to moderation. “There’s a big difference between rocket attacks a terrorist organization in Gaza and the right of Israel to defend itself,” said Foreign Office spokeswoman Jen Psaki in Washington.
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