Five Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza; Palestinian death toll hits 1,088 | +972 Magazine
As world leaders attempted to, once more, broker a humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Monday, the IDF announced that five Israeli soldiers were killed over the course of the day. Four of them were killed by mortar shell fire near the border with Gaza, while a fifth was killed in clashes with Hamas militants in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The Israeli Air Force pounded the Strip into the early hours of Tuesday morning, a day after its airstrikes killed a total of 44 Palestinians. Another 12 bodies were recovered from the rubble by medical teams earlier in the day, according to Ma’an News Agency.
A
woman mourns for her young child, killed by an Israeli airstrike over
an UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun, July 24, 2014. (Anne
Paq/Activestills.org)
