Tel Aviv, April 3 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to seize large sections of the Gaza Strip to create a new so-called security corridor that would cut off Rafah from the neighboring southern city of Khan Younis. 

Israel already controls some 17% of Gaza’s territory, according to an Israeli human rights group.

Israel’s reinvasion of Gaza came amid a wave of deadly missile and artillery attacks that killed at least 56 people since dawn.  Among the dead are 19 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations clinic in Jabaliya being used as a bomb shelter. Victims included children and at least one infant.

Other Israeli attacks today killed civilians in a displacement camp in Khan Younis that Israel had designated as a so-called humanitarian zone.  Israel’s military has killed over 1,000 people in Gaza since unilaterally ending the ceasefire last month.

[ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW ]