Israeli military operation goes on, six Palestinians killed

Israeli air and ground operations against the Palestinians continued on Friday, and six Palestinians were killed and 10 injured, medics and witnesses said.

Two militants were killed and three injured Friday afternoon in a fresh Israeli airstrike on the northern town of Beit Lahya.

On Friday morning, another two militants were killed and two injured in two separate airstrikes on Beit Lahya and Jabalya in northern Gaza Strip, security sources said.

Medics said that a fifth Palestinian who was critically wounded in an air raid Thursday night died in hospital on Friday of his wounds.

Meanwhile, an Israeli army force stormed on Friday morning a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, killing a Palestinian militant, member of the al-Aqsa Brigades, the Fatah's armed wing.

Khaled Radi, spokesman of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, said that the death toll of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army since Thursday predawn reached 28, adding that 92 people were also injured, many of them women and children.

On Thursday predawn, the Israeli army expanded its "Summer Rains" operation against the Gaza Strip and sent more tanks and armored personnel carriers into former Jewish settlements in northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli army officials said that the aim of the operation was to free an abducted Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip and prevent Palestinian rocket firing.

Source: Xinhua