The death toll from five days of conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza has risen to 122, with nearly 1,000 injured. Sixteen Palestinians were killed on early Saturday morning, as Israeli missiles hit multiple targets, including a mosque, a hospital and Gaza’s Centre for Disability Services. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, three young disabled women were killed and at least 10 wounded as an Israeli air-strike targeted the disability centre. Israeli war-planes, which have so far struck 1,160 targets in Gaza, also targeted two mosques which the Israeli military says concealed Hamas and other militant groups’ weapons. “Hamas terrorists systematically exploit and choose to put Palestinians in Gaza in harm’s way,” says Israel’s military spokesperson. Meanwhile, Hamas and other Gaza based groups, which have fired 689 rockets at Israel, condemned the attacks on mosques. “The bombing of two mosques in Gaza overnight shows how barbaric this enemy is and how much is it hostile to Islam,” said Husam Badran, a Hamas spokesman in Doha, Qatar. “This terrorism gives us the right to broaden our response to deter this occupier.” The violence being witnessed between the Israelis and Palestinians is the…
