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One injured in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

16 November 2011 04:09 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The Israeli air force has conducted several airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, injuring at least one Palestinian, APA reports quoting Press TV.

It was not immediately clear whether Tuesday’s airstrikes caused any damage or fatalities in the coastal territory.

On Monday, the French consul in Gaza and his 13-year-old daughter were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Palestinian territory.

On the same day, another Israeli airstrike on a Hamas naval base in northern Gaza killed one Palestinian and injured four people.

Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have claimed the lives of scores of Palestinians and injured many more.

Israel has been launching regular airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since the end of its December 2008-January 2009 war on the Palestinian territory.

The 22-day war left over 1,400 Palestinians dead and injured thousands more.

The three weeks of unrelenting aerial, land, and sea strikes also destroyed thousands of civilian and government buildings and devastated much of Gaza’s infrastructure.

In addition, Israeli forces have been targeting Palestinians who approach a so-called buffer zone. In 2008, Tel Aviv declared that the 300-meter-long strip flanking the Gaza-Israel boundary would henceforth be a no-go zone, effectively preventing Gazans from accessing some of their agricultural land.

Israeli soldiers often open fire on Palestinians in an around the zone under the pretext of preventing attacks on Israel.