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<h1 class="reader-title">Palestinian death toll climbs to 24 as
Israel bombards Gaza for a second day</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">By MEE staff - November 13,
2019<br>
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<p>At least 24 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli
air strikes on Gaza, including a father and his two
sons, as the military continued its air campaign for a
second day Wednesday.</p>
<p>The latest flare up was triggered by Israel's
assassination of a top member of the Islamic Jihad on
Tuesday morning, and is showing little sign of easing.</p>
<p>The enclave's ministry said 69 people had also been
wounded during the bombardment.</p>
<p>Some of the bodies of those killed in Gaza City were
brought into Shifa hospital in taxis and ambulances
early on Wednesday. Medics and witnesses said they
were civilians who lived in densely populated
neighbourhoods.</p>
<p>A father and his two sons were killed by an air
strike while on a motorcycle, an eyewitness told
Middle East Eye, adding that they had just reached
their home when the attack took place.</p>
<p>The father was a farmer with no political
affiliations and was coming back from his field, the
eyewitness said. </p>
<p>"They started this, we did not want war," said one
grieving relative.</p>
<p>Islamic Jihad confirmed that two of its fighters were
killed in separate strikes south of Gaza City during
the morning. It identified one of the men as Khaled
Farraj.</p>
<h3>Netanyahu warning</h3>
<p>Israel launched deadly strikes against commanders of
Islamic Jihad early on Tuesday, triggering a wave of
tit-for-tat rocket salvoes and air strikes.</p>
<p>The Israeli military said it had carried out a series
of strikes on Islamic Jihad targets on Wednesday in
response to new rocket fire from Gaza. </p>
<p>It said one of the targets was a rocket launching
squad which it hit.</p>
<p>Air raid sirens sounded in the Israeli towns of
Ashkelon and Netivot near the Gaza border.</p>
<p>Since Israel's targeted killing of Islamic Jihad
commander Baha Abu al-Atta on Tuesday morning, at
least 220 rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza
without causing any deaths, the military said.</p>
<p>Israeli air defences intercepted 90 percent of the
rockets, it added.</p>
<p>Abu Musaab al-Breem, spokesman of Al-Quds Brigades,
the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said: "What’s going
on is retaliation for the assassination of Abu al-Atta
and is coordinated by all Palestinian factions."</p>
<p>Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who
ordered the assassination, on Tuesday accused Abu
al-Atta of masterminding recent attacks against Israel
and planning more in the near future.</p>
<p>Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Islamic Jihad must
stop rocket attacks or "absorb more and more blows".</p>
<p>"They have one choice: to stop these attacks or
absorb more and more blows. Their choice," Netanyahu
said at the start of a cabinet meeting, adding that
Israel was not seeking a further escalation.</p>
<p>A diplomatic source told the Reuters that the UN
Middle East envoy was on his way to Cairo to begin
mediation to end the violence.</p>
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