GAZA: Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and its aircraft struck southern Lebanon overnight, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of his top generals and his war cabinet to assess the escalating conflict.
Israel’s attacks concentrated on the Gaza Strip’s centre and north, Palestinian media reported. A strike on a house near the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, killed several Palestinians and wounded others, according to media reports.
In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, two Palestinians were killed at the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Residents told that Israeli forces raided the camp and carried out widespread arrests, as they clashed with gunmen and some youths who threw stones. The Israeli army has not issued a statement about the incident.
Israeli bombing kills Palestinian writer Heba Kamal
A Palestinian writer and poet Heba Kamal Abu Nada died in Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip, Gulf Today reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Culture mourned the deceased in a statement on its account on the social networking site Facebook, explaining that the deceased
wrote stories, novels, and poetry. She was born in Saudi Arabia in 1991, from a refugee family from Beit Jirja, which was displaced in 1948.
Heba Kamal studied biochemistry and educational rehabilitation, worked in education sector, and won several awards, the most important of which was first place in the short story in Palestine, and second place in the Arab world with the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity for her novel “Oxygen is not for the dead.”
