Israel Bombs more than 30 locations in the Gaza Strip
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- Published: Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:23
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Foto: Cadenagramonte.Gaza, May 29.- The Israeli air force bombing today more than 30 targets in Gaza, which could be a prelude to greater armed actions of Israel against the Palestinian coastal enclave under siege.
Among other objectives, according to local sources, Israeli aircraft fired seven missiles at a site of the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad.
Another of the air attacks are directed against the town of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the bombing was carried out in response to the shooting this morning from the Gaza Strip 28 mortar shells toward towns in southern Israel as Eshkol, Shaar Hanegev and Sdot Negev adjacent to Gaza.
On that occasion, the Israeli Iron Dome anti-missile system (dome of iron) intercepted most of the bullets, which, according to the IDF, would have been fired by the Islamic Jihad movement.
In a statement, the IDF claimed that "From our point of view, Hamas is responsible for what is happening in the Gaza Strip. As well as allowed the calm, is now allowing the noise. In fact, it was the Islamic Jihad who fired the mortars), but Hamas has the responsibility."
For its part, the Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, confirmed that today, at noon, "massive attack and powerfully the terrorist infrastructure."
Israel holds the Palestinian movement Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Among the whites bombed, detailed the IDF, there is a tunnel that is allegedly went about 900 meters in Israeli territory.
Shortly before, also today, the Israeli Artillery loop more than 10 155 against several towns in the east of Gaza city with a balance of a person killed and one wounded, according to the spokesman of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al Qidra.
As part of the seemingly endless cycle of violence generated by the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, the attack with mortars from Gaza was made in response to the death last Sunday of three Palestinians, in the southern city of Rafah, two of them fighters of the Al Quds Brigades.
This is the most serious incident of this kind since the past 30 March will begin in Gaza the gears with the return, during which, some 120 unarmed Palestinian civilians have been killed by the Israeli repression, while another 2,000 have been wounded. (Cadenagramonte)
