BEIT HANUON, December 19, 2005 (WAFA)- A physician and nurse were wounded Monday of Israeli air strikes on Beit Hannon city, north of the Gaza Strip(GS).

Medical sources said that a physician and a nurse were wounded when Israeli war planes launched a series of air strikes on the (GS). They added that Ziad Taher, physician at Balsam Hospital, was wounded and suffered fraction in foot, in addition to a nurse working at the same hospital.

Security sources told WAFA that eight Israeli missiles dropped on different areas of the northern parts of GS, causing great damages into citizens' houses.

M.H. (12:03 P) (10:03 GMT)