Reply #1: IDF shelling kills 8-year-old girl in her northern Gaza home [View All]

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"An eight-year-old girl was killed Monday by Israel Defense Forces artillery fire that hit her family home in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia.

The girl was named as Hadil Ghabin. Five other people were wounded in the shelling, including Hadil's pregnant mother, Safia, and her 19-year-old sister.

The wounded were taken to hospital in the town, the mother in serious condition."

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"Earlier, Palestinian police said that shelling had hit two houses in northern Gaza, lightly wounding two people.

The shells landed in a farming area, the police said, causing light shrapnel damage to the two homes and destroying a greenhouse.

Military sources told Haaretz last week that the IDF has racheted up artillery fire on Gaza in response to the Qassam attacks, and has also greatly reduced the safety zone around Palestinian communities. The IDF conceded this step could result in loss of civilian life, as was the case earlier last week when a Beit Lahia farmer was killed and some of his relatives were injured."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/704146.html