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Arab leaders to visit Gaza Sunday
Sunday November 18, 2012 06:10:13 AM,
Agencies
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Ramallah:
Arab leaders will visit Gaza Sunday to take stock of the situation
after Israeli air raids against Islamic militants left about 40
people dead.
Arab League secretary-general Nabil Al-Arabi and several Arab
foreign ministers will visit the coastal enclave Sunday, the
Palestinian National Authority said.
Israel has carried out more than 600 air strikes since Wednesday
in retaliation of the missile attacks on its territory by Islamic
militants, Xinhua reported.
On Saturday, Hamas movement's headquarters in Gaza
were destroyed in deadly Israeli air raids as the two sides continued to exchange missiles in
escalating violence in the region.
The five-storey building was hit by five or six missiles or bombs
in quick succession around 4 a.m., smashing windows in buildings
nearby and starting a huge fire, a witness told RIA Novosti.
Witness reports said extensive damage was done to the building, in
which Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniye received Egypt's Prime
Minister Hisham Qandil during a visit Friday.
"The cabinet headquarters was targeted with four strikes and the
government stresses that it remains committed to its positions and
its stand alongside the people," the Hamas government said in a
statement.
Eyewitnesses and Hamas officials said the building located in the
Nasser neighborhood of Gaza City was virtually leveled in the
strike.
“The headquarters was completely destroyed and neighboring houses
were damaged as a result of the barbaric Israeli bombing,” a Hamas
official told AFP.
The government building had only recently been constructed after
an Israeli military operation in Gaza in 2008-09 in which over
1,000 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.
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