Zionist Jets Strike Gaza Amid al-Quds tensions

Date: 13 December 2017 - 22:07

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GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s war jets struck early on Wednesday morning two military posts that belong to resistance Hamas movement in southern Gaza Strip of Khan Younis and south of Gaza City, security sources and paramedics in Gaza said.
The airstrikes caused damages to the two posts but no injuries were reported, according to the sources.
Tension has been escalating in Gaza and the West Bank between the Zionist regime and the Palestinians since the declaration of U.S. President Donald Trump last week that al-Quds is the capital of the Zionist regime.
On Tuesday, an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle carried out an attack in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least two people along a road in Um al-Nasser village. The two slain Palestinians were reportedly members of the engineering unit of al-Quds Brigades, which is the military wing of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement.
Zionist troops also targeted several positions belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip with land and air attacks. The occupying regime’s army claimed that the attacks were in response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into an unpopulated area in the occupied territories without causing any injuries.
The Gaza Strip, home to 1.8 million, has been under siege by the Zionist regime since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
The Tel Aviv regime has also waged several wars on Gaza since 2008, killing and maiming thousands of Gazans.
The dramatic shift in Washington’s al-Quds policy drew fierce criticism from the international community, including the United States’ Western allies, and triggered demonstrations against the U.S. and the Zionist regime worldwide.
Al-Quds remains at the core of the Zionist–Palestinian conflict, with Palestinians hoping that the eastern part of the city would eventually serve as the capital of a future independent Palestinian state.
Mass arrests
Zionist troops raided several Palestinian homes in the West Bank towns and cities of al-Quds, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin and al-Khalil early Wednesday, arresting 32 people, including 20 Hamas officials.