At Least 3 Israelis Killed on Anniversary of Nakba Day
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - At least three were killed and five others were wounded after an unknown assailants conducted an operation on the anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, which marks the Israeli regime’s claiming existence in 1948.
The operation, for which no one or group has yet claimed responsibility, took place on Thursday in the city of Elad in the occupied territories' central region.
According to the occupying regime's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency response team, three of the wounded are in "severe condition," while the remaining two have moderate or minor injuries.
The situation that the service encountered was described as a "difficult scene" by an MDA employee.
All of the deaths were males in their early 40s, according to the worker, and those critically injured were men aged 35 to 60.
The regime's security forces have launched a manhunt, dispatching helicopters and erecting barricades across the occupied territory.
After a heavily-Western-backed war that evicted over 700,000 people from their homes in the Palestinian lands, the Israeli regime proclaimed its existance on May 15, 1948.
The incident occurred just a few days after Eid al-Fitr, which marks the conclusion of Ramadan.
The Israeli dictatorship increased its attacks on Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the holy occupied city of al-Quds during the fasting month.
Outraged by the barbarity, Palestinians intensified their attacks on Israelis throughout the Palestinian territories. Dozens of Palestinians and Israelis have been killed in the operations.
Resistance groups in the nearby Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip have described the Thursday operation as a token of Palestinians’ outrage at the occupying regime’s escalation targeting the compound of the mosque, which is Islam’s third-holiest site.
Hamas, the Gaza Strip’s leading resistance movement, called the attack “a heroic operation.” It noted how it had warned that the mosque was “a redline,” saying the operation was the “practical implementation” of the warning.
The Islamic Jihad, Hamas’ fellow resistance group in Gaza, called the operation “victory for al-Aqsa.”
The group described violation of the mosque’s compound by the Israeli regime and illegal settlers was “a declaration of war against the Palestinian people,” vowing that “our people will continue to confront the occupation and its aggression.”