GAZA, March 12, 2012 (WAFA) – Medical sources in Gaza confirmed reports that an elderly man and his daughter were killed Monday in an Israeli shelling on Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
They said the bodies of Mohammad Hassoni, 65, and his daughter Fayza, 35, were shredded to pieces due to the force of the explosion.
Three people were injured in the same attack, added the sources.
The killing of the two brings to 23 the death toll of Palestinians killed in the Israeli airstrike on Gaza since Friday.
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