{"id":101132,"date":"2013-12-25T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T17:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/israeli-air-and-ground-assaults-pound-gaza-2\/"},"modified":"2013-12-25T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T22:17:13","slug":"israeli-air-and-ground-assaults-pound-gaza-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/israeli-air-and-ground-assaults-pound-gaza-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Air and Ground Assaults Pound Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel slammed Gaza with a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/israel-gaza-sniper-fire-wounds-worker-border-21321035\" target=\"_blank\">air and ground military assaults<\/a> on Tuesday, killing 3-year-old Palestinian girl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/25\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-palestinian-violence.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hala Abu Sabikha<\/a> and wounding at least nine in what appears to be the most severe attack on this besieged home to 1.7 million people since an <a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2012\/11\/israel-rejects-truce-and-escalates-fighting-in-gaza-with-assassination-of-hamas-leader-ahmed-al-jabari.html\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli offensive in November 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hala&#8217;s mother, her 3-year-old brother Bilal, and 6-year-old brother Mohammad were injured in the attacks. The family was reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/25\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-palestinian-violence.html?hpw&amp;rref=world\" target=\"_blank\">struck<\/a> in Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Isreali Army <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/israel-gaza-sniper-fire-wounds-worker-border-21321035\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> airstrikes and tank and infantry attacks were in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli laborer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israeli-man-severely-wounded-by-sniper-fire-from-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\">identified<\/a> as 22-year-old Saleh Abu Latif from the majority Bedouin city of Rahat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Palestinian officials reported at least 16 Israeli attacks, causing a causing a series of loud explosions across the territory in rapid succession,&#8221; <em>Associated Press<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/israel-gaza-sniper-fire-wounds-worker-border-21321035\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>. Witnesses say shells were fired at Gaza City, <em>Reuters<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/12\/24\/us-palestinians-israel-idUSBRE9BN0CT20131224\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">_____________________<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Israeli Air and Ground Assaults Pound Gaza\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/12\/25-1\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel slammed Gaza with a series of air and ground military assaults on Tuesday, killing 3-year-old Palestinian girl Hala Abu Sabikha and wounding at least nine in what appears to be the most severe attack on this besieged home to 1.7 million people since an Israeli offensive in November 2012. Hala&#8217;s mother, her 3-year-old brother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":101135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}