Zionist Regime Steps Up Armored Deployment to Gaza

Date: 19 October 2018 - 21:12

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GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime has ramped up its armored forces around the Gaza Strip in order to curb weekly protests along a fence separating occupied territories from the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Media reports said some 60 tanks and armored personnel carriers were being deployed along the Gaza fence in anticipation of new demonstrations on Friday.
Witnesses said that the reinforcements were clearly visible from main roads in the occupied territories near the Gaza Strip.
The latest deployment is considered as the largest seen there since the 2014 Zionist offensive on the coastal sliver of land, which left more than 2,200 Palestinians dead.
The decision was taken after Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his cabinet meeting earlier Wednesday and pledged to take "very strong action" if Palestinian "attacks" continued.
The remarks came after the regime’s army said that a rocket fired from Gaza had hit the city of Beersheba in the Negev Desert and a second had landed in the sea.
A medical official told Israel Radio that three people were taken to hospital with injuries after the alleged rocket attacks.
Palestinian resistance groups, however, denied any involvement in the alleged rocket fire in a joint statement.
The groups also vowed to continue Gaza protests until the Zionist siege on the Palestinian region is terminated. They also expressed their full preparedness to confront any Israeli aggression against Palestinians.
Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees spokesman Abu Mujahid told al-Mayadeen TV channel that Israel is looking for pretexts to attack, and that resistance groups reserve the right to respond to new assaults.