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#Eid2014: #Israel kills 100 in Gaza on #Eid, razes lone power plant.
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State of Palestine: Children fill Gazan hospitals as shelling intensifies *GRAPHIC*
Hamas|Gaza
GAZA CITY: Israel struck symbols of Hamas control in Gaza with warplanes and tank shells on Tuesday — the second day of the three-day Eid festival holiday — killing more than 100 Palestinians in the heaviest bombardment in the war so far.
Shells fired by the Israeli forces knocked down the Gaza Strip's only power plant, snapping electricity to a majority of the 1.7 million people. The shutdown will also affect water supplies as pumps wound down. Hours after the power plant was hit, thick black smoke still rose from the plant's burning fuel tank. "We need at least one year to repair the power plant, the turbines, the fuel tanks and the control room," said Fathi Sheik Khalil of the Gaza Energy Authority. "Everything was burned.''
The heavy strikes dealt a fresh blow to international efforts for a truce in the fighting, now in its 22nd day. The death toll has since crossed 1,156, the Gaza health ministry said.
Israel has reported 53 soldiers and three civilians killed. In one strike on Tuesday, 10 members of a family were killed and 50 people were wounded in tank shelling in the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya, officials said.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned of a "prolonged" campaign against Hamas. But it was not clear if he has decided to expand the Gaza war into an all-out effort to topple the militant outfit or planned to limit Israel's operation to the previously stated goal of ending Hamas rocket fire and destroying Hamas's sophisticated network of cross-border tunnels. Already, the intensity and the scope of the current Gaza operation is on a par with an invasion five years ago, which ended with a unilateral Israeli withdrawal after hitting Hamas hard.
On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of attacks, levelling the home of the top Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, and damaging the offices of the movement's al-Aqsa satellite TV station, a central mosque in Gaza City and government offices. Haniyeh's house in a narrow alley of the Shati refugee camp, was reduced to rubble but no one was hurt. Residents placed a large framed portrait of Haniyeh atop the wreckage and draped it with green Hamas flags and Palestinian national banners.
Israel has targeted several homes of Hamas leaders but no one has been killed because they have kept a low profile. Haniyeh said in a statement Tuesday that "destroying stones will not break our determination".
State of Palestine: Children fill Gazan hospitals as shelling intensifies *GRAPHIC*
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