Hamas to raise Israeli strikes with UN

The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas says it is planning to file a complaint with the United Nations against Israel’s deadly airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.Hamas, the democratically-elected ruler of Gaza, said on Wednesday that it planned to raise the issue of  repeated instances of Israeli violation of the Palestinian territory with the UN, arguing that there was a “threat of further aggression against the Palestinians.” Hamas will submit “a complaint to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and all relevant agencies about … the threat of further aggression against the Palestinians”, Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nunu said. “We will be in contact with several countries to explain the aggressive behavior of the occupation forces and have been in touch with Egyptian officials to discuss these threats,” he added. Since the end of the 2009 war on Gaza, a large number of Palestinians have been killed or wounded as a result of Israeli air attacks on the besieged coastal sliver. Many Palestinian structures have also been destroyed in the raids. Earlier on Saturday, at least five people were killed by an Israeli aerial assault on the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Israeli officials said they ordered the attack because they had received reports that the men were planning to fire rockets into southern Israel.