Tensions escalate in Gaza as Israeli shelling kills Palestinian woman
May 5, 2016 1:49 P.M. (Updated: May 5, 2016 8:21 P.M.)
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GAZA (Ma’an) — Tensions continued to escalate in the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday, with reports of one Palestinian woman killed by Israeli shelling, as Israeli forces said airstrikes were in response to Palestinian resistance groups targeting its troops with mortar rounds.
Medical sources told Ma’an that a Palestinian woman in her fifties, identified as Jana Aytah al-Amur , was killed by Israeli shelling on Thursday evening in the al-Fakhari area east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. An Israeli army spokesperson said they could not confirm the case.
Medical sources also said that an Israeli airstrike injured a Palestinian woman, identified as 21-year-old Khazima al-Farra, in the al-Rayyan area in eastern Rafah.
Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli F-16 jets launched several rockets in the southern Gaza Strip at around 5 p.m., hitting agricultural land in the Abu al-Rus area in eastern Rafah.