At least
four Palestinians from the same family have been killed, and 43 people
were injured, in the Gaza Strip after Israeli military ordnance left
over from last summer’s 50-day war exploded, a Palestinian health
official has said.
Ashraf
al-Qidra, a Gaza health ministry spokesman, said on Thursday that the
rocket exploded as Palestinian workers were helping family members
remove rubble from a house destroyed in the war between Israel and
Hamas, who rule the coastal territory.
The rocket is believed to have been dropped in an airstrike on the house during the war.
Last year,
six people, including a video
journalist from the AP news agency and his
Palestinian translator, were killed as Gaza police engineers tried to
defuse unexploded Israeli ordnance.
On
Wednesday, Hamas warned of renewed violence unless Israel lifts its
blockade of Gaza, at a ceremony marking the end of a military-style
summer camp for 25,000 Gazans.
“Today, our
message to the occupier is very clear: We will not accept a blockade,”
said Mahmud Zahar, a senior Hamas leader who has been holding indirect
contacts with Israel over a long-term truce in return for an end to the
nine-year-old blockade.
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