GAZA CITY
Israeli troops on Monday opened their gunfire on an ambulance in the northern Gaza Strip Jabalia camp, an eyewitness said.
He added that one of the aid responders on the ambulance was wounded as a result of the shooting.
A medical source, meanwhile, described the injury of the aid responder as "moderate". He said aid responder Haitham Abu Al-Lil was heading to Jabalia to rescue the victims of an Israeli strike there.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said earlier that the Israeli army had attacked 14 ambulances since it began the war on Gaza on July 7.
Israel launched a series of strikes against different parts of the Gaza Strip on Monday, leaving at least 27 people dead and more than 140 others injured throughout the day.
Since July 7, Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip with fierce aerial bombardments with the ostensible aim of halting rocket fire from the strip, leaving at least 1069 Palestinians dead and more than 6350 others injured.
Gaza-based resistance factions, meanwhile, have continued to fire rocket at Israeli cities in response to relentless Israeli bombardments.
According to official Israeli figures, 48 Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed since the hostilities began.
Israel's military operation, dubbed operation "Protective Edge," is the self-proclaimed Jewish state's third major offensive against the densely-populate Gaza Strip – which is home to some 1.8 million Palestinians – within the last six years.
In 2008/9, over 1500 Palestinians were killed in Israel's three-week-long operation "Cast Lead."
By Mustafa Haboosh
www.aa.com.tr/en
