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Public support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fallen to new lows amid the continuing Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to a poll conducted by Channel 2.
The poll found that the leaders approval rating was just 38 percent, down 17 percent since the last poll the previous Thursday and almost 50 percent since his recorded high of 82 percent on July 23 they report.
At least 3000 children have sustained injuries in Israel's ongoing onslaught on the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to a Geneva-based watchdog.
In a statement issued Tuesday in Gaza, the EuroMed Observatory for Human Rights said its teams in the coastal Palestinian territory had registered cases of 3000 children hurt during the Israeli offensive.
It said at least one third of them suffered permanent disabilities.
The watchdog accused Israel of committing "flagrant violations" against Gaza's civilian population and demanded an end to "Israeli crimes against humanity."
Two Palestinians were killed in a fresh Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, taking the death toll from Israel's weeks-long onslaught to 2135, a Health Ministry spokesman.
"Two Palestinians were killed in the strike that targeted a house in central Gaza City," Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.
He said that three other people were injured in the attack.
Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and ‘Arraba nearby town, kidnapping eight Palestinians, report the International Middle East Media Centre.
Local sources in Jenin said the kidnapped Palestinians are members of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Jenin.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that the soldiers invaded Jenin while firing rounds of live ammunition, before breaking into and searching several homes and kidnapping five Palestinians.
The kidnapped residents have been identified as Abdullah ‘Afif Zakarna, 48, Fada’ Raouf Zoghbi, 38, Mohammad Taher Zgheibi, 32, ‘Alam Sami Masad, 43, and Ahmad Jamal al-Qet, 30.
The soldiers also invaded ‘Arraba town, west of Jenin, also searched and ransacked several homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians identified as Ja’far Fawzi Abu Salah, 48, ‘Awni Mohammad Jaber, 21, and Dawwas Issam Abu Salah, 20.
Another Palestinian, identified as Mahmoud Mohammad Nassar, 66, has also been kidnapped from his home in Beit Qaad village, east of Jenin.
Late on Monday at night, soldiers invaded Deir Estia town, west of the Central West Bank city of Salfit, and kidnapped a child identified as Marcel Mohammad Zeidan, 15. Clashes have been reported, no injuries.
Israeli forces have detained 23 Palestinians from different parts of the occupied West Bank overnight.
The Israeli army said on its official twitter account that the 23 Palestinians were "wanted" by security forces, reported Anadolu Agency.
It did not, however, elaborate on the charges leveled against the detained Palestinians.
Two rockets were fired over night from Lebanon onto Israel, the Israeli army said.
The Israeli army announced Tuesday that it had targeted 15 sites in the Gaza Strip overnight.
On its twitter account, the army said it had struck two schools for being used to fire rockets on Israel.
It said one of the schools was used last week to fire a rocket that had killed a 4-year Israeli boy.
At least 20 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a 14-storey building in the Gaza City early Tuesday, according to a Health Ministry spokesman.
"Twenty Palestinians were injured in the Israeli strike in the central Gaza City," Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.
He said that four firefighters and two journalists were among those injured in the attack.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli planes fired three missiles into the building.
Israeli planes struck the headquarters of the Palestinian Legislative Council (parliament) in western Gaza City Tuesday morning.
"Israeli warplanes fired a missile into the building in western Gaza," an eyewitness told Anadolu Agency.
Israeli planes also struck two schools in eastern Gaza City.
The two attacks targeted a school in Zaytoun district and another in the Shujaya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, an eyewitness said.
No casualties were reported in either of the incidents.
Israel will soon receive a delayed U.S. army shipment, including Hellfire missiles, the Israeli Haaretz daily reported Tuesday.
The daily quoted an unnamed Israeli defense source as saying he expected the shipment to leave for Israel soon.
Israel had requested the arms for its ongoing onslaught against the Gaza Strip, according to Haaretz.
The shipment had reportedly been halted by the Obama administration two weeks ago.
Twenty Israelis sustained light injures on Tuesday after a rocket fired from Gaza Strip hit the coastal city of Ashkelon, according to the Israeli Haaretz daily.
It added that four mortar shells had fell in an open area in Eshkol Regional Council earlier in the day.
An Israeli source has told daily newspaper Haaretz that the ceasefire talks are "serious" this time.
Tel Aviv is "convinced" that the end is near, and that there is nothing to be gained from a continuation of the war.
There are reports that Israeli security services have sent a message to Gazans at random warning:
"Hamas is nearing the end: where will you stay tomorrow?"
Palestinians news site al-Majd, close to Gaza's security services, called the move "psychological warfare" and warned people not to respond.
Last Friday Gazan security services launched "Operation Stifle", aiming to prevent Gazans from collaborating with Israel and passing on information.
They publicly executed 18 suspected collaborators on one day.
Since then, al-Majd reports that 13 people have turned themselves in. A woman also turned her husband, and a father did the same to his son after locking him in the house and forbidding him from making phone-calls.
al-Majd reports that security services released those who surrendered themselves to the authorities without further charge.
Israeli forces are firing artillery on south Lebanon, after reporting that a rocket fired from that location hit upper Galilee.