The Israeli army continues to attack Gaza, while two Palestinians in the West Bank are injured. These stories and more coming up stay tuned.

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At least six Palestinian were injured when an unmanned Israeli plane fired a missile at a group of civilians in Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.

Witnesses said that the missile targeted a motorcyclist driving on the road near al-Nasser hospital. Doctors said that the driver and five children from a nearby UN run school were injured by the attack.

Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance groups said that they fired two home-made shells at Israeli targets near the Gaza Strip in response to Israel's continued attacks on Gaza. Israeli sources said that Palestinian shells landed in open areas in northern Israel, causing no injures.

At dawn on Thursday Israeli warplanes hit the Gaza-Egypt border in southern Gaza. Witnesses said that Israeli warplanes shelled the Assalam neighborhood, and that a metal workshop in the city was also hit during the air strikes. Meanwhile, Israeli tanks that invaded the eastern parts of Deir Elbalah in central Gaza Strip yesterday pulled back after Israeli bulldozers razed vast areas of Palestinian-owned lands.

Gaza-based resistance factions resumed homemade shell-fire into nearby Israeli towns, as the Israeli attacks continued in the area despite the ceasefire declaration on January 18th. The Israeli media reported that a number of homemade shells landed in nearby southern Israeli areas. No causalities have been reported.

During an Israeli pre-dawn attack, targeting the southern West Bank city of Hebron and nearby villages on Thursday, the Israeli Army injured two civilians and kidnapped four others. In Beit Omer village near Hebron, Israeli troops attacked people's homes and searched them. During the search, witnesses said that soldiers opened fire at their homes. Jamal Al Allamah, age 62, and his wife Fahmia, age 55, were injured.

Doctors said that the two sustained moderate wounds. Al Allamah sustained wounds in his chest, while his wife was hit on her legs.

Soldiers left Beit Omer after kidnapping two civilians. Meanwhile, another Israeli force stormed and searched homes in the village of Sourif near Hebron, and kidnapped two civilians, local sources reported. Homes were also searched in the city of Hebron, but no kidnappings were reported there.

Conclusion

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