Israel killed 19 Palestinians, injuring scores

Witnesses said that Israeli helicopters launched several attacks against sites in Gaza on Saturday at dawn, hours after the escalation of tension following the killing of 19 Palestinians in an explosion during a military parade for Hamas in Jalablia that Israel is accused of carrying out.

The Israeli side announced that the attack targeted smith workshops said they belong to Hamas movement in Gaza, but al-Jazeera satellite TV said the attack targeted houses for members in Hamas in Gaza. One woman was admitted to hospital after these raids for medical treatment but the number of casualties is not known yet.

The raids were preceded by an Israeli announcement that was not confirmed by any Israeli sides that five Israelis were injured by Palestinian launched missiles shelling fired from Gaza at Sdeirout during night time.

This came a short time after Hamas had accused Israel of launching an attack at a military parade in Jabalia camp, but Israel denied connections to the incident which Fatah movement said a result of an internal explosion.

The central committee for the Fatah movement held Hamas movement fully responsible for the killing of 19 persons including two children and wounding of other 120, some 20 of them were in critical conditions.

Fatah considered that the fall of victims came as a result of the military parade held by Hamas in Jabalia in north of Gaza, noting that those parades are a violation for the national consensus.

In a statement, the committee called following a meeting in Ramullah led by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on forces and groups to stop such military parades and alienate all weapons and explosives from residential areas.