An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestine mother and her three-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip and police said they foiled an attempt to drive a car bomb into Jerusalem, as the bloodshed continues.
Within the span of 12 days,four Israelis and 23 Palestinians died in the violence that has spread from Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Israel’s interior and Hams-ruled Gaza.
According to Israel, the aircraft targeted a Hamas facility in the Gaza Strip, after rockets were fired across the border. The child and the lady were killed when their house, which was close to the facility, broke down, according to Palestinian medical officials.
Meanwhile on a West bank road which leads towards Jerusalem, police pulled over a car driven by a Palestinian woman who they said shouted ‘God is great’, and detonated an explosive when approached by officers.
Both the woman and the officer were injured in the explosion.
‘We foiled a car bomb attack,’ said police commander Rafi Cohen. ‘We have no doubt the woman terrorist who drove the vehicle intended to reach Jerusalem.’ Israeli leaders have described the bloodshed as a ‘wave of terror’, just falling short of an organised ‘Intifada’ [uprising].
Palestinians have reportedly been attacking Israelis with knives, rocks and, on at least one occasion, guns, against a backdrop of Muslim protests over Jewish access to al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.
‘The Palestinian Authority is not interested in matters deteriorating, because then they would be swallowed up in the cloud of violence and the fire and terror that is liable to develop,’ he told Army Radio.
