Saturday, June 30, 2007

The IDF makes 7 air strikes on Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza, assassinating 3 senior Islamic Jihad cmdrs. (Raed Ghannam, Ziyad Ghannam, Muhammad al-Ra‘i) and wounding 7 bystanders in a strike on a car in Khan Yunis, killing another 4 Palestinians and wounding 2 in a strike on an alleged weapons depot in al-Maghazi r.c., and striking the same site later in the day, heavily damaging 6 nearby homes, wounding 1 bystander. Palestinians fire several rockets fr. Gaza into Israel, lightly injuring 1 Israeli, damaging 1 home and 2 other buildings. In Bureij r.c., a Hamas mbr. is injured when explosives he is handling detonate prematurely. (NYT, WP, WT 7/1; OCHA 7/4; PCHR 7/5)