(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggressive attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, claiming more innocent lives and injuring dozens.
In Gaza, a Palestinian mother who was five months pregnant was killed along with her child at dawn Sunday, while at least four other family members were injured, after the Israeli Air Force bombarded the Zeitoun neighborhood.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the woman, Nour Rasmi Hassan, 30, and her two-year old child, Rahaf, were killed in the Israeli Air Strike.
The Ministry added that after locating the body of the slain woman, medics and rescue teams started searching among the rubble and located the body of her child.
Palestine's WAFA News Agency said an Israeli F-16 fighter jet fired two missiles close to the family home, southeast of Gaza City, causing damage to several homes and killing the woman.
The Air Force also struck another location west of Gaza City, causing fires and excessive damage.
The Israeli army alleges that a shell was fired from Gaza Saturday night, towards an Israeli settlement close to the Gaza Strip, causing no damage or injuries.
Israel said sirens were sounded in settlements close to Gaza, and on the Asqalan Coast, followed by the sound of explosions. The military then reported that their explosive experts started a search for the alleged shells. But no damage was reported from the alleged rocket fire.
On Saturday evening, the Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian boys, aged 13 and 15, at a demonstration in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip.
At least 15 others were injured during the protest.
The Palestinian Red Crescent later said that its ambulance crews had treated seven Palestinians shot with live rounds across the Gaza Strip, in addition to 21 who suffered excessive tear gas inhalation.
In Hebron, a young Palestinian man succumbed to wounds sustained two days earlier during clashes with Israeli forces in the southern occupied West Bank.
The Israeli forces shot the 27-year-old man in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet during clashes in Beit Ummar north of Hebron on Thursday. Hospital doctors said he died on Saturday "due to severe head trauma." Meanwhile, a Palestinian youth was shot dead after he allegedly stabbed three Israeli officers in the occupied East Jerusalem, near Damascus Gate.
According to the Israeli media, Mohammad Ali, aged 18 from Shuafat camp north Jerusalem, was shot-dead, leaving one Israeli officer seriously wounded, and the others with light to moderate wounds.
Mohammad was the fourth youth to be killed by the Israeli forces in Jerusalem on Saturday.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, the Israeli forces shot and injured at least 174 Palestinians with live and rubber-coated steel bullets across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Saturday.
Spokesperson Errab Foqaha that 26 Palestinians were shot with live rounds and a further 148 with rubber-coated steel bullets.
Some 408 Palestinians suffered excessive tear gas inhalation, she said, while four were violently beaten.
In fierce clashes near Beit El settlement outside Ramallah, at least four Palestinians were shot with 0.22 caliber bullets, leaving one in critical condition.
A further 10 were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, including two journalists, with most of the protesters Palestinian students from Beir Zeit University.
Some seven Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes near Bab al-Zawiya near Hebron, the Red Crescent said earlier Saturday, while another four Palestinians were injured during clashes in al-Ram, to the south of Ramallah.
Israeli troops tried to raid the village, but Palestinian protesters closed off the streets with cement blocks and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at them, forcing the soldiers to remain at an Israeli military base nearby.
The number injured on Saturday will bring the total well over 1,000 since clashes broke out at the beginning of this month. Some 20 Palestinians have been killed in the same time period, 13 of whom were shot during clashes.
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