Gaza Strip Targeted in Israeli Airstrikes
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Airstrikes were conducted against the Gaza Strip on Thursday by the Israeli regime, which claimed it was responding to a rocket attack from the direction of the besieged coastal sliver.
Israeli warplanes hit the enclave in early Thursday, AFP reported, citing “witnesses and security sources.”
The agency said the aerial offensive that reportedly hit a target belonging to Gaza’s resistance movements in the central part of the enclave, was carried out hours after the groups “fired a rocket into” the occupied territories.
It is yet to be known whether the strikes resulted in any casualties.
No earlier than on Tuesday, Israeli jets carried out a similar round of attacks against Gaza in response to another rocket launch, hitting what Tel Aviv described as, a weapons manufacturing site belonging to the Hamas resistance group.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, said it retaliated with surface-to-air missiles.
The developments came amid a serious flare-up in the holy occupied city of al-Quds, where Israeli forces have stepped up their attacks on Palestinian worshippers since the start of the fasting month of Ramadan.
More than 150 Palestinian worshipers were injured when Israeli forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque’s compound in al-Quds’ Old City on Saturday.
Besides keeping up their violations on the flashpoint site, the forces have been cracking down on solidarity protests throughout the occupied West Bank.
Gaza’s resistance movements have warned the regime that it has to stop its atrocities in al-Quds or face the consequences of its actions.
