GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Sunday denounced the Zionist regime’s airstrikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reported.
The regime’s warplanes carried out airstrikes on several Hamas positions in Gaza late Saturday. Zionist regime tanks also shelled four observation towers of the Interior Ministry in northern Gaza.
No injuries were reported in the attacks, which the Zionist army said were in response to rocket fire from Gaza.
In a statement, Hamas termed the attacks as a “new aggression to be added to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”
“The [Palestinian] resistance will continue to fulfill its duty to defend the [Palestinian] people and liberate the [Palestinian] land and holy sites,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said.
Qassem also hailed the confrontation of the resistance’s anti-aircraft systems with Zionist warplanes.
“Greetings to the proud men of the resistance who repel the enemy’s attack with missiles and anti-aircraft systems, and greetings to our brave people who stand on the front line to confront the enemy,” he said.
Al-Aqsa TV reported that during the Zionist raid, Palestinian air defense forces fired two rockets, of SAM-7 type, at the regime’s helicopters over Gaza’s western coast.
Palestinian news agency Sama quoted former Zionist communications minister Ayub al-Qara as saying that it was time for the regime to assassinate Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh and the movement’s leader Yahya al-Sinwar.
The occupying regime launched an 11-day military offensive in Gaza in May, in which more than 260 Palestinians were killed and thousands of others injured.
The violence, the worst in years, came to a halt under an Egyptian-brokered truce on May 21.