Israel Launches Airstrikes on Gaza

The Israeli Air Force has attacked the southern Gaza Strip, enlisting the services of military aircraft and unmanned spy planes, a report says.

Israeli fighter jets, courtesy: Press TV

(GAZA CITY Press TV) - Israeli warplanes launched military airstrikes near the city of Khan Younis in the south end of Gaza, bombarding a chicken farm on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent on the ground there reported. The aircraft, he said, continue to fly over the city.

Israeli planes also attacked the southern border city of Rafah, targeting the tunnels beneath Gaza's border with Egypt that are used to transport vital food and building supplies that have been nearly inaccessible since Israel's illegal siege of Gaza began in mid-2007.

Salem-News.com's Ken O'Keefe is on the ground in Gaza and has been for the last several days, we have not yet determined his position in relation to the bombings, but we know he is safe.

The only word relayed from O'Keefe so far is, "I am great, went to Rafah tonight, but all is quiet."

There have so far been no reports of human or material losses from the attacks. The Israeli military has not confirmed the airstrikes.

Tel Aviv has repeatedly pounded Gaza since it took the strip under all-out onslaughts in the Operation Cast Lead at the turn of 2009, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicting a damage of above $1.6 billion on the enclave's economy.