GAZA (Dispatches) – The occupying regime of Israel launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Friday despite agreeing to a ceasefire, arousing popular calls for continued Palestinian retaliatory strikes.
The Zionist military announced early on Friday that it had launched airstrikes targeting positions affiliated to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance group.
Gaza's Health Ministry reported that two injured citizens were being treated following the strike.
The strikes threaten to unravel a fragile ceasefire which put an end to two days of fighting after Israel assassinated a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza on Tuesday.
As a result of Israeli iarstrikes, at least 34 Palestinians, including eight children and three women, were killed and more than 110 people injured.
Palestinian resistance groups, notably Islamic Jihad, responded with more than 400 rockets fired into Occupied Palestine, paralyzing Tel Aviv and other cities, leading to the closure of businesses and roads.
On Wednesday, Hamas officials warned that it would join Islamic Jihad in repelling Israeli aggression if Tel Aviv failed to respect the ceasefire which it called for.
"If airstrikes and aggression continue, Hamas and the resistance groups will have to morally respond to and protect the Palestinian people,” an unnamed Hamas official told the U.S.-based Fox News channel.
Hours later on Thursday morning, Islamic Jihad announced that the occupying regime of Israel had accepted its conditions for ceasefire, agreeing to halt targeted assassinations and attacks on Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip.
The Zionist regime submitted to the ceasefire meditated by Egypt as retaliatory missile salvos hit Israeli cities and towns
Shortly later, however, Zionist FM Israel Katz rejected any change in Israeli policy against Gaza while speaking to Army Radio. Targeted killings "will not cease", he said, adding that Israel's "open-fire policy" against protests at the Gaza fence will not change.
Israeli strikes on Gaza killed eight members of the same family, five of whom were children, shortly before the occupying regime submitted to a ceasefire on Thursday morning.
The Zionist military claimed that the strike targeted the father of the family, Rasmi Abu Malhous, for allegedly being affiliated with Islamic Jihad. Relatives, neighbors and an Islamic Jihad spokesman, however, denied that Malhous belonged to the resistance group.
"This is a war crime," said neighbor Adan Abu Abdallah. "You are killing innocent children, sleeping at home," he added.
In another incident, a six-month pregnant woman identified as Iman Abu Tayyim, suffered a miscarriage in a severe anxiety attack after Israeli bombs landed near her home east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Palestinian sources.
On Thursday night, crowds converged in Gaza's northern Jabalia camp urging for further retaliation against Israel's onslaught.
At least two separate volleys of rockets were reportedly fired into Occupied Palestine on Thursday.