GAZA, (PIC)-- The IOF troops murdered a 20-day-old infant girl called Amira Abu Asr, wounded her mother and assassinated a leader affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, during their incursion into the Abu Al-Ajeen village to the east of Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical and local sources told the PIC reporter that the infant was shot in the head; whereas, her mother was seriously wounded and her father was kidnapped during their visit to the house of Yousef Al-Samiri, a prominent Islamic Jihad leader.
Eyewitnesses explained that Israeli special forces reinforced by a number of tanks and air cover invaded the villages of Al-Karara and Abu Al-Ajeen and stormed the Samiri's house amid intensive gunfire, adding that the IOF troops also kidnapped Samiri's elder son and wounded a Palestinian citizen.
Later, medical sources in the Aqsa martyrs hospital stated that they received the body of Samiri who was reportedly killed after escaping from his house.
For its part, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters fired a number of mortar shells at the invading IOF troops and an RPG shell at an Israeli military jeep in the villages, while its anti-aircraft units warded off the Israeli planes.
The Palestinian people in Gaza fear that these Israeli military operations would be a complement to the Israeli massacre committed east of the Jabaliya town, northern Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death of 124 Palestinians including 40 children and 14 women, and the destruction of the invaded areas' infrastructure.
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