Special report: Israel launches Gaza assault

    GAZA, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian teenager was killed and another security officer was injured on Sunday morning after an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a homemade rockets launcher in northern Gaza Strip, witnesses said.

    The witnessed said that Ibrahim Abu Namou, 16, was riding on a cart pulled by a donkey and as soon as he approached the launcher in the area, the missile fired from a drone killed him and wounded another national security officer at the spot.

    A Palestinian ambulance took the body of the teenager and the wounded officer to a hospital near Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, another Palestinian, who was seriously injured last week in the town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip by Israeli troops' gunfire, died of his wounds in an Israeli hospital Sunday morning, medics said.

    In early November, the Israeli army carried out a one-week military ground operation called the Autumn Clouds, during which at least 85 Palestinians were reportedly killed and more than 300 wounded.