Israeli aircraft bomb interior ministry of de facto government in Gaza; one woman dead, 46 injured

Gaza - Ma'an. 18.1.08 (16,04) - A woman was killed and 46 people were injured, three of them seriously, in an Israeli airstrike on the interior ministry of the de facto government in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Al-Hawa, on Friday afternoon. The building was completely destroyed. According to Muawiya Hassanein, director of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian health ministry, fifty-two-year-old Haniya Abd Al-Jawad was killed. 32 of the injured were taken to Ash-Shifaa' Hospital in Gaza City, three of them in a critical condition. 14 others were taken to Al-Quds Hospital. The de facto government's interior ministry has been targeted twice in the past several months by the Israeli airforce. Meanwhile Israeli warplanes also bombed the marine headquarters of the security services, west of Dir Al-Balah. No one is reported injured.