Post date: Nov 18, 2012 11:22:50 AM
Journalists in Gaza wounded in Israeli airstrike on media building.
GAZA CITY, GAZA (NOVEMBER 18, 2012)(REUTERS) - An Israeli air raid targeted a building in Gaza City housing the offices of local Arab media, wounding three journalists from al Quds television, a station Israel sees as pro-Hamas, witnesses said on Sunday (November 18).
Israel launched both aerial and naval attacks on Sunday, bombing targets in Gaza for a fifth straight day, as its military prepared for a possible ground invasion, though Egyptsaw "some indications" of a truce ahead.The bombing campaign began on Wednesday (November 14), killing a leading militant of the Hamas Islamist group that controls Gaza and rejects Israel's existence, with the goal of deterring gunmen in the coastal enclave from launching rockets that have plagued its southern communities for years.
The Jewish state has since launched more than 950 air strikes on the coastal Palestinian territory, targeting weaponry and flattening militant homes and headquarters. More than 500 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel, killing three people and injuring dozens.
Two other predawn attacks on houses in the Jebalya refugee camp killed one child and wounded 12 other people, medical officials said.
Forty-eight Palestinians, about half of them civilians, including 13 children, have been killed in Israel's raids, Palestinian officials said.