GAZA (Dispatches) – Several
explosions rocked the Gaza Strip early on Monday, a Reuters witness said, as the Zionist regime claimed it attacked an underground site used by the Palestinian enclave’s resistance movement.
The air strikes, in which there was no immediate word of casualties, followed what the occupying regime described as its shooting down over the weekend of a rocket that had been fired over Gaza. There was no Palestinian claim for that launch.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas strongly condemned the latest Zionist airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, saying the ongoing aggression is doomed to failure due to steadfastness and resistance of the Palestinian nation.
“The resistance front will remain the protective shield of our people. The ongoing aggression is bound to fail in the face of our people’s revolution, steadfastness and resistance,” Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesman, said in a statement on Monday morning.
“The Zionist bombardment of Gaza coincided with acts of aggression against Nablus and Al-Quds, confirming that we are facing a campaign of hostilities against our entire nation. We salute the fighters of the al-Qassam Brigades, who repelled the Zionist enemy’s raids on the Gaza Strip, and confused the occupation army and its settlers,” Qassem said.
The Palestinian Shehab news agency reported that Israeli military aircraft launched 10 raids on a “resistance site” west of Gaza City. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The report added that the strikes led to huge explosions, which caused material damage to residential buildings.
The Israeli military artillery units also targeted two monitoring points, one east of Beit Hanoun and another east of Khan Yunis.
Also on Monday, a large number of Israeli troops stormed Nablus in a pre-dawn raid, and surrounded a residential building on Sufyan Street, amid heavy gunfire and sound of explosions, according to a local resident.
Director of the PRCS’s Ambulance and Emergency Center in Nablus, Ahmed Jibril, said in a statement that ambulance crews transferred five Palestinians to Rafidia Hospital, who were wounded after Zionist troops opened fire on them.
Zionist troops killed a young Palestinian man during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said, only a few hours after another young Palestinian died from wounds sustained earlier in the day when the Zionist troops raided the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian media outlets identified the victim as Amir Bustami, saying he lost his life after the ambulance crew and medical staff could not revive him.
A day earlier, a Palestinian child succumbed to the injuries he had suffered during a raid by the occupying regime’s forces on Jenin.
Fourteen-year-old Qusai Radwan Waked died on Sunday after being taken to hospital along with a number of other Palestinian youths who were injured during a raid by the Zionist troops earlier in the day, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported, citing the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The ministry noted that Waked had been “seriously wounded in the abdomen by live fire from the occupation” forces in Jenin.