In Israel and the Occupied Territories, at least twenty Palestinians have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Gaza’s Interior Ministry building was destroyed in an overnight strike. A six-month-old Palestinian boy was killed and twenty-five people were injured in the densely populated neighborhood nearby. Earlier in the day, at least ten Palestinians, including four civilians, were killed in other Israeli attacks. The victims included a nine-year-old boy and a seventeen-year-old teenager. The strikes followed a Palestinian rocket attack that killed an Israeli college student in the town of Sderot. The victim was the fourteenth Israeli to die in Palestinian rocket attacks in the last seven years. Israeli government spokesperson Aryeh Mekel vowed to continue military attacks on Gaza.

Aryeh Mekel: “Let there be no mistake about it, Israel will take the necessary steps. Our war on terror will continue until we put an end to these murderous attacks by the Hamas and its associates from the Gaza Strip.”