Israeli raid kills Palestinian child, seriously wounds his father

21 يونيو/جزيران 2012 الساعة . 11:28 ص   بتوقيت القدس

A Palestinian child was killed and his father and a neighbor were seriously injured in an Israeli air raid on Gaza city afternoon Wednesday.

Local sources said that an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired two missiles at a field in Zaitun suburb, south west of Gaza city, killing the 14-year-old child Momen Al-Adam.

Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, a spokesman for the health ministry, said that Momen’s father and a neighbor, who was in the field at the time of the raid, were seriously injured.

He said that the casualties of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip, which started on Monday, had thus reached nine martyrs and 19 injured.

For their part, Palestinian resistance factions fired a number of rockets at Israeli targets near to the Gaza Strip in retaliation to the Israeli attacks.