Al-Quds Brigades the armed wing of Islamic Jihad on Tuesday claimed responsibility for targeting a group of Israeli soldiers with mortar shells at a military post in the east of Rafah province south of the Gaza Strip.
In a communiqué al-Quds Brigades said its fighters launched a mortar attack on a gathering of Israeli soldiers behind al-Matbaq military post in eastern Rafah.
The Brigades affirmed that there were casualties among the soldiers adding that army helicopters landed in the area and carried out evacuations.
“The resistance has the right to confront any Zionist aggression against its people and we are determined to uphold the option of resistance and struggle until the liberation of our entire land” the Brigades underlined.
The Israeli occupation started at dawn Tuesday a new round of military escalation against Gaza by assassinating senior Islamic Jihad commander Bahaa Abul-Ata and his wife.
