Scores Killed in Airstrikes
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Israeli aircraft launched air attacks across Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 100 people, including the Hamas police chief, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.
Smoke rises from the Gaza town of Rafah after Israeli air strikes on Saturday.
Smoke rises from the Gaza town of Rafah after Israeli air strikes on Saturday.
Palestinian medical sources said 250 people were wounded.
A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Israeli aircraft attacked "a series of Hamas targets and infrastructure facilities."
"Many killed and many injured," a Gaza-based reporter said. "People are running in the streets."
The reporter, who is not being named for safety reasons, said the attacks, which are hitting across Gaza, appeared to be the biggest he had seen in his decades there.
Video from the scene showed severely wounded people being loaded into cars and driven to hospitals.
"The Air Force activity came as a result of the continuation of terror activity by Hamas terror organization from the Gaza Strip, and the duration of rocket launching and targeting Israeli civilians," the IDF statement said.
The IDF said the targets "include Hamas terror operatives that operated from the organization's headquarters, training camps and weaponry storage warehouses."