GAZA, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli warplanes early today killed a man and his wife and injured their children as they were asleep in an airstrike on their house in the eastern Gaza Strip neighborhood of al-Shuja’yeh, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that an Israeli warplane fired two rockets at the house killing Bahaa Abu al-Ata, 42, a top leader of the Islamic Jihad, and his wife, Asmaa, while injuring their children Saleem, Mohammad, Liyan and Fatima as well as their neighbor Hanan Hillis, who were moved to Shifa Hospital.
Sources said tension was high throughout the Gaza Strip in light of the assassination.
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