A home occupied by a family that has ties with the Hamas party which controls the government in the Gaza region of occupied Palestine. The Israeli state has continued its siege of the large open air prison.
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By HISHAM ABU TAHA | ARAB NEWS
Updated: Aug 2, 2010 22:27
GAZA CITY: Forty-two Palestinians were wounded early Monday in an explosion that hit Deir Al-Balah city in the central of the Gaza Strip, witnesses and medical sources said.
They said that the heavy blast occurred in a house where an activist of the armed wing of Hamas lives. In the meantime, Hamas security services which control the Gaza Strip told reporters that the house has been hit by an Israeli warplanes but Israel formally denied the reports.
Al-Qassam brigades leader Alaa Al-Danaf homes was the target in Deir Al-Balah city, which was destroyed with five other nearby houses by a missile fired from an Israeli F16 fighter jet, Adham Abu Salimyya told the local news agency Maan.
Israeli warplanes has launched two pre-down air strikes on tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday in response to a homemade rocket fired from the territory that struck southern town of Sderot.
A Hamas senior commander and homemade rocket-maker was killed during the air strikes. This incident was the first of its kind in Gaza since Israel wound up a three-week military offensive on the Gaza Strip in January 2009.
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