GAZA - Since Thursday, Israel has launched numerous air raids on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 16 and injuring dozens of Palestinians. Three Palestinians including a five-year-old boy were killed and three passersby were injured in an attack on a vehicle in central Gaza City on Friday, Al Jazeera's Safwat Al Kahlout reported.
Previously, the latest air strike on the Gaza Strip hit Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza late Friday night, killing two men.
- The Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, confirmed that one of the men, Emad Abu Abda, was their member. The other man's identity and possible affiliations were not immediately known.
- This was the Israeli air forces' sixth operation since beginning their raids in retaliation for Thursday's incidents.
Hours earlier, the Israeli air force targeted rocket launchers, "two weapons manufacturing sites in central Gaza" and "terrorist activity in the north and the south" of the strip", the Israeli military told Al Jazeera.- Five members of the PRC, including its leader, were killed in Thursday's overnight air strike in Gaza's southern city of Rafah and another killed on Friday, Al Kahlout reported from Gaza.
- Abu Mujahid, a PRC spokesman, has said the group vows to take revenge "against everything and everyone" for its members’ deaths. Medical sources said at least three civilians have also been killed, including two boys aged three and 13 who died early on Friday.
Palestinian fighters in Gaza have launched more rockets into southern Israel, injuring three people. The attacks against the coastal town of Ashdod on Saturday came in response to continued Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip that have now killed 14 people during the past two nights.
The violent exchanges follow coordinated deadly assaults by gunmen who targeted two buses, a car and an army vehicle in the area north of Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat on Thursday.
- In response to the Gaza attacks and at the request of the Palestinians, the Arab League said it would hold a meeting on Sunday afternoon.
- "The Arab League received a request from the Palestinian state ... and after negotiations it decided to host an urgent meeting on the level of the permanent representatives at 12 p.m. tomorrow," said Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, a spokesman for the Arab League.
Eight Israelis, including six civilians and two soldiers, were killed on Thursday alongside seven of the attackers, among which were two suicide bombers who detonated near a bus and during a confrontation with soldiers. Over 40 Israelis were also wounded, local media reported.
Israel has vowed to "hunt down" the perpetrators who it said had infiltrated from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Israeli officials have blamed a Gaza-based armed group called the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) for Thursday's attacks, although the faction has denied any involvement.
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