Zionist Regime Jets Conduct Fresh Airstrikes on Gaza
GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s warplanes have conducted fresh airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, shortly after the regime troops attacked and injured dozens of Palestinians during anti-occupation protests near the fence separating the coastal sliver from the occupied territories.
The Israeli military claimed the fighter jets struck two underground infrastructures purportedly belonging to the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
There have been no immediate reports of possible causalities or damage as a result of the Israeli air raids.
The statement by the occupying regime also claimed that the airstrikes had been conducted in response to a rocket launch allegedly by Hamas against a target in the Israeli-occupied territories earlier in the day. It further said that the rocket had been intercepted and shot down in the south of the occupied territories.
The rocket fire had reportedly sounded sirens in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and in the Sderot settlement. Some settlers also said that they had heard sounds of explosions.
The developments came hours after at least 38 Palestinians sustained injuries, 20 of them by direct Israeli live fire, during anti-Israel protests in Gaza.
Palestinians have held weekly rallies in the area since last year to protest the siege on the enclave and stress the right to return of the refugees who have fled the Zionist regime’s aggression since 1948.
At least 305 Palestinians have been killed by Zionist troops ever since the anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. Over 18,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
Gaza has been under siege by the regime since June 2007, which has caused a decline in living standards.
The Zionist regime has also launched three major wars against the enclave since 2008, killing thousands of Gazans each time and shattering the impoverished territory’s already poor infrastructure.
In the latest incident, scores of Palestinians were injured by live bullets and rubber-coated rounds as Zionist troops attacked thousands of protesters taking part in the weekly Great March of Return at Gaza border on Friday, according to medical sources.
Troops manning the separation fence fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered at many encampments along the border, injuring 34 protesters by live bullets and 33 others by rubber-coated rounds, WAFA reported.
Dozens of protesters sustained inhalation from teargas fired by the Zionist troops.
Palestinian protesters stay their ground in the face of tear gas fired by Zionist troops across the fence separating the Gaza Strip from occupied territories, in western Gaza, on August 2, 2019.
The Israeli military claimed the fighter jets struck two underground infrastructures purportedly belonging to the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
There have been no immediate reports of possible causalities or damage as a result of the Israeli air raids.
The statement by the occupying regime also claimed that the airstrikes had been conducted in response to a rocket launch allegedly by Hamas against a target in the Israeli-occupied territories earlier in the day. It further said that the rocket had been intercepted and shot down in the south of the occupied territories.
The rocket fire had reportedly sounded sirens in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and in the Sderot settlement. Some settlers also said that they had heard sounds of explosions.
The developments came hours after at least 38 Palestinians sustained injuries, 20 of them by direct Israeli live fire, during anti-Israel protests in Gaza.
Palestinians have held weekly rallies in the area since last year to protest the siege on the enclave and stress the right to return of the refugees who have fled the Zionist regime’s aggression since 1948.
At least 305 Palestinians have been killed by Zionist troops ever since the anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. Over 18,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
Gaza has been under siege by the regime since June 2007, which has caused a decline in living standards.
The Zionist regime has also launched three major wars against the enclave since 2008, killing thousands of Gazans each time and shattering the impoverished territory’s already poor infrastructure.
In the latest incident, scores of Palestinians were injured by live bullets and rubber-coated rounds as Zionist troops attacked thousands of protesters taking part in the weekly Great March of Return at Gaza border on Friday, according to medical sources.
Troops manning the separation fence fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered at many encampments along the border, injuring 34 protesters by live bullets and 33 others by rubber-coated rounds, WAFA reported.
Dozens of protesters sustained inhalation from teargas fired by the Zionist troops.
Palestinian protesters stay their ground in the face of tear gas fired by Zionist troops across the fence separating the Gaza Strip from occupied territories, in western Gaza, on August 2, 2019.