On Thursday dawn, the Israeli Air Force fired many missiles into sites for Palestinian resistance factions in several parts of the besieged Gaza Strip. The attacks came less than a day after the army killed eleven Palestinians in Nablus.
Media sources said the army fired missiles in the Bader site of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, northwest of Gaza city, causing excessive damage.
They added that the army also fired missiles into another site run by the Al-Qassam Brigades in the Al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza.
The army also fired missiles into a site in the Shati’ refugee camp, west of Gaza city.
The Israeli army said it was retaliating to six shells fired from the Gaza Strip before they were intercepted by the Aerial Defense System, except for one that allegedly landed in an open area.
Late Wednesday, the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad in Palestine, Ziad Nakhalah, stated in response to the Israeli offense that led to the killing of eleven Palestinians in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, that it is the duty of his group and all resistance factions to retaliate against the Israeli crimes.
The slain Palestinians, as officially confirmed by the Palestinian Health Ministry, are:
- Anan Shawkat Ennab, 66.
- Adnan Sabe’ Ba’ara, 72.
- Mohammad Khaled Anbousi, 25.
- Tamer Nimir Ahmad Minawi, 33.
- Mos’ab Monir Mohammad Oweiss, 26.
- Husam Bassam Isleem, 24.
- Mohammad Abu Kabr Al-Juneidi, 23.
- Walid Riyad Hussein Dakheel, 23.
- Abdul-Hadi Abdul-Aziz Ashqar, 61.
- Mohammad Farid Sha’ban, 16.
- Jasser Jamil Abdul-Wahab Qaneer, 23.
Besides killing the twelve Palestinians in Nablus, the army also injured more than 102, six seriously, and caused more than 250 Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation and other minor wounds.
On Thursday dawn, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a young man, Mohammad Nabil Fawzi Abu Sabah, 29, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, two weeks ago.
