Palestinian Resistance Groups Warn Zionist Regime After Gaza Strikes

Date: 18 August 2019 - 21:51

News ID: ۶۹۴۴۲

GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – Hamas and Islamic Jihad, two Palestinian resistance movements based in the Gaza Strip, have issued stern warnings to the Zionist regime following strikes that killed three Gazans.
The Zionist regime’s military said helicopter gunship and tank fire had killed three "armed suspects” along the fence separating the coastal sliver from occupied Palestinian lands. Ma’an news agency said at least one other Palestinian had suffered critical injuries in the overnight attack.
Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif al-Qanu reacted on Sunday, saying the pressure that the Palestinian nation was being subjected to threatened to cause "its rage against the occupiers to explode.”
Such eruption could only be prevented if Tel Aviv ended its atrocities, acts of terrorism, and siege targeting the Palestinians, Qanu said.
He said the international community’s silence and inaction in the face of the regime ran counter to international law and humanitarian principles and encouraged Tel Aviv to perpetrate more such crimes.
Islamic Jihad, meanwhile, released a statement saying that the occupying regime’s "brutal treatment of our nation” manifested itself in the recent killings.
It described Zionist crimes as "a declaration of war against our people.”
Helicopters and jets operated by the Zionist regime launched fresh attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, less than a day after warplanes targeted facilities allegedly belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
Media reports said the rocket attacks had caused panic among Israeli settlers and Zionist troops. There was no statement from Hamas on the rocket attacks and Israeli bombardment.
Later reports in the Israeli media showed that regime forces had shot and killed five Palestinians who were allegedly attempting to cross the border from Gaza into the occupied territories.
The reports said the five were members of the military wing of Palestinian movement the Islamic Jihad who were crossing the border from Gaza’s Beit Hanoun region.
The escalation of the conflict in Gaza comes amid renewed tensions in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians have been protesting against the continued Israeli aggressions.
Hamas officials said early on Saturday that Israel’s attacks on Gaza were meant to divert attentions from regime’s embarrassment in the West Bank.
Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, said it would not allow the Israeli regime to use the enclave as a ground to settle its accounts.