Many Palestinians Killed in Israeli Air Strike
Palestinian medical sources told Aljazeera correspondent Samir Abu Shamaleh, that the air strikes early on Sunday hit a motorcycle traveling through the city’s Zeitoun district, "wounding at least nine civilians".
Hamas sources named one of the dead men as Wael Nassar, 38, a senior leader of one of Hamas’s military wings.
Abu Shamaleh said Nassar had been an Israeli target for ten years and had survived numerous attacks and assassination attempts.
Hamas resistance fighter Mohammad Sarsour, 31, also died in the attack.
Civilians in crossfire
A civilian, Madi Abu Madi, 18, was also killed.
Three of the wounded civilians were in critical condition. A woman and two children were among the casualties, hospital sources said.
Witnesses said two of the three dead were riding the motorcycle.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the incident.
Earlier attacks
Israeli occupation forces killed 16 Palestinians and wounded 185 in a two-day siege of Zeitoun earlier this month. Palestinian resistance fighters hit back blowing up a troop carrier carrying six Israeli soldiers.
All six were killed.
Palestinian fighters killed another five soldiers in the same way shortly afterward in the southern town of Rafah, prompting a six-day army siege of the area that left 42 Palestinians dead and over 1,000 homeless.
