Gaza - Israel continued on Tuesday, for the eleventh day in a row, its land, air, and now marine assault also on the Gaza Strip which killed over 550 Palestinians and injured more than 2 700 so far.
An Israeli F-16 plane fired a rocket at a four-storey residential building in the Al-Zaitoun district in Gaza City on Tuesday morning and demolished it completely, killing and injuring 30 Palestinians, including 12 children, and destroying dozens of homes nearby.
Civil defence personnel are doing their best to pull out victims from the rubble.
Israeli planes also bombarded 10 houses in the Al-Bureij camp, injuring scores of people.
Local radio stations said that one of the raids destroyed the home of Palestinian Kamal Al-Kahlout in the Jabalia camp, killing one of his sons and two of his neighbours and injuring the rest of his family.
Many homes in the crowded camp were severely damaged by the Israeli attack, they added.
Meanwhile, two members of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, were killed on Tuesday morning in clashes with an Israeli special force unit on the coast of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip.
The brigades said members clashed with the Israeli unit, which sneaked into the coast, before they were bombarded by Israeli helicopters.
Since Monday evening, the north eastern front of Gaza City became a scene for clashes among Israeli soldiers and members of the different Palestinian groups.
Israeli ground forces are supported by Israeli planes, eyewitnesses said.
Local radio stations quoted medical sources as saying on Tuesday that attacks from military Israeli planes, ships, and tanks targeted houses, institutions, NGOs and kin societies, and ambulance as well as vehicles Monday night, killing and injuring many Palestinians and demolishing about 20 homes in different areas of the Gaza Strip.
A total of 13 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids on Al-Bureij and Deir Al-Balah on Monday evening, while more than five were killed and many others were injured when Israeli ships fired missiles at homes in Deir Al-Balah.
Another raid killed two Palestinians, injured several others, and damaged many homes.
In Rafah city, several homes were demolished and Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air raids.
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza on Monday evening and early on Tuesday forced thousands of Palestinians in Jabalia, Beit Lahya, and Beit Hanoun to evacuate their homes and seek refuge in schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Near East (UNRWA).
According to local radio stations, UNRWA announced several schools were opened for Palestinian families.
