Zionist Regime Carries Out Fresh Attacks on Gaza

Date: 15 August 2020 - 21:44

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GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s military has launched fresh aerial and ground attacks against targets across the besieged Gaza Strip, in the latest of a series of attacks carried out overnight this week.
Late on Friday, the regime’s warplanes, helicopters and tanks once again bombed positions in the blockaded enclave, claiming that they were positions held by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
In a statement issued following the attacks, the occupying regime’s military said that the raids were carried out in response to a number of alleged incendiary balloons sent from Gaza to the occupied territories, and targeted "naval force compound, underground infrastructure and observation posts” belonging to Hamas.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least a pregnant woman and a three-year-old child sustained injuries in the attacks and were taken to hospital for treatment.
Friday’s attacks on sites allegedly used by Hamas were the sixth such night-time aggression this week.
A day earlier, the regime’s warplanes, attack helicopters and tanks struck a number of positions allegedly belonging to the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement. However, reports coming out of Gaza and videos of the strikes that circulated online, showed residential buildings and agricultural land have also been hit.
Gaza-based media said the strikes hit targets across the Gaza Strip from Rafah in the southern part of the occupied territory to Beit Hanoun in the north early Thursday.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement on Thursday that "Israel’s continued escalation on the Gaza Strip and stoppage of fuel shipments [into the territory] constitute a dangerously aggressive and unpredictable act, and the Occupation (the Zionist regime) bears responsibility for all possible consequences.”
Barhoum noted that such aggressive policies are aimed at exacerbating the crises facing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, paralyzing their daily lives, and disrupting efforts meant to confront the spread of coronavirus amid regional and international silence.
Gaza has been under siege by the Zionist regime since June 2007, which has caused a decline in living standards.
The regime has also launched three major wars against the enclave since 2008, killing thousands of Gazans each time and shattering the impoverished territory’s already poor infrastructure.
The crippling blockade has caused a decline in the standard of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty in the Gaza Strip.