GAZA (Dispatches) – Hamas says its fighters in southern Lebanon have fired a barrage of rockets against the northern part of the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s ongoing campaign of aggression against Gaza.
The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, claimed the attack on Monday.
Hamas’s fighters “have fired a concentrated rocket barrage from south Lebanon towards” an Israeli military position, al-Qassam said in a statement on Telegram.
The Israeli army said “approximately 20 launches crossed from Lebanon” into the occupied territories, AFP reported.
Citing “media reports,” The Times of Israel said “a barrage of 30 rockets” had been fired, setting off sirens in the Metula and Kiryat Shmona illegal settlements as well as elsewhere across the Upper Galilee. 
Al-Qassam described the attack as a “response to the massacres of the Zionist enemy” in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
Gaza has been enduring a genocidal Israeli war since October last year.
At least 34,488 people have been killed and 77,643 others wounded in the brutal military onslaught that was launched following Al-Aqsa Storm, a retaliatory operation staged by Gaza’s resistance groups.
Hundreds of others have been killed across the West Bank, where the regime has escalated its aggression against Palestinians since the onset of the war.
A senior Hamas official says the resistance movement and other Gaza-based groups are involved in a full-scale multi-national onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Palestinian fighters will determine the fate of the war.
Mousa Abu Marzook, a member of the Hamas politburo, made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Iran’s Arabic-language television news network al-Alam TV broadcast on Sunday night.
“Hamas is engaged in a multi-national war involving the United States, certain Western countries and the Zionist regime. Nonetheless, the resistance front is mightily fighting off the Zionist regime and has a clear vision in this regard.
“We determine the destiny of the Gaza war, not the Zionist regime or the United States, which mistakenly believed they could destroy Hamas within a week and redraw the map of Gaza as they wish,” Abu Marzook said.
He added that Washington and the Tel Aviv regime initially announced they wanted to destroy Hamas and its military wing the al-Qassam Brigades, release Israeli captives and replace Hamas with their desired government in Gaza, but they failed to achieve any of the declared goals.
“They even failed in the management of the Rafah border crossing until they had to agree to Hamas control over it. They tried to create chaos in Gaza by sending their own mercenaries into the territory under the guise of humanitarian aid workers. They were not successful in such a plot as well. They must coordinate whatever they want to do in Gaza with Hamas. It is Hamas who will shape the future of Gaza,” Abu Marzook noted.