Alwaght- Israeli regime in yet another atrocity against Palestinians carried out series of airstrike at several sites in Gaza Strip in the early morning on Saturday.
Tel Aviv claimed it raided the besieged enclave in response to a rocket fired from the small territory into an Israeli city Friday evening, Israeli and local sources said.
Palestine-based Maan news cited local sources as saying Israeli warplanes launched rockets at two sites reportedly used by al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, in the southern part of Gaza City, and targeted missiles at five other locations allegedly used by al-Qassam Brigades and al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad.
Missiles struck a site in Beit Lahiya, a blacksmith workshop in the neighborhood of Zaytunin an empty land near an al-Quds Brigades’ site northwest of Beit Lahiya, and a shed near an agricultural college east of Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip, according to locals.
However, an Israeli army statement reported that the Israeli army targeted four locations in the northern and central Gaza Strip that were “components of Hamas’ operational infrastructure.”
No injuries were reported, despite heavy property damage.
Israel holds the Hamas movement responsible for all rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, although other Palestinian militant groups are active in the small Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli airstrikes come some two months after an Israeli forces sustained airstrikes in Gaza for several consecutive days in May allegedly in response to cross-border mortar shelling and a rocket being fired from the Gaza Strip during Israeli operations inside the borders of the small territory to uncover Hamas-built tunnels.
The majority of the more than 1.8 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are sealed inside the coastal enclave due to a near-decade long military blockade imposed by Israeli Regime and upheld by Egypt on the southern border.
The crippling blockade was imposed following the victory of Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian elections which left Hamas in control of the Gaza Strip and Fatah in control of the occupied West Bank
