Israel continued its aggression against the Gaza Strip yesterday for the third day in a row. It destroyed over 48 targets, including headquarters of the Palestinian presidency and the deposed government. 19 Palestinians, including six children, were killed. This took the death toll to 345, including 20 children and more than 16 women and 1,650 injured, 200 of them in critical conditions. On the other hand, a Palestinian stabbed four Israelis in the West Bank before being shot by an Israeli passerby. In addition, an Israeli was killed and 10 others were injured as a result of a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip at the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon.
An official security source said: "Some Palestinian elements broke into the border checkpoint between the Gaza Strip and Egyptian Rafah. They shot at the Egyptian border forces, killing Major Yasser Issawi and wounding two others."
The Department of National and International Affairs at the Palestine Liberation Organization called for stopping some bodies' campaigns to tarnish Egypt's image and cast doubts on its stance towards the Palestinian issue. It stressed the importance of closing up the Palestinian ranks supported by Arab, Islamic and international stances to face the Israeli aggression on Gaza. In Cairo, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif chaired a meeting to follow up recent developments in Gaza. Cabinet's Spokesman Magdy Radhi said the cabinet expressed Egypt's strong condemnation of the Israeli military operations in Gaza as well as regret and condolences for the death of Issawi. Hundreds of people representing all national forces demonstrated yesterday before the Syndicate of Journalists and the Bar Association. The demonstrators carried banners condemning the Zionist massacre that killed hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They called on Arab States and the international community to take the necessary steps to stop attacks against the Palestinian people. The Egyptian authorities allowed humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip yesterday and Palestinian trucks began to flow to Rafah border crossing to get this aid. (Egyptian ambulances transferring Palestinian injured through Rafah
