Israeli warplanes bombed on Wednesday morning two resistance sites in the embattled Gaza Strip after the Palestinian resistance fired a volley of rockets at Israeli settlements in response to the brutal police attack on Muslim worshipers last night at the Aqsa Mosque.
A security source said that a resistance site in the southwest of Gaza sustained damage after a warplane fired a number of missiles at it.
The source added that another aerial attack targeted a resistance post in an-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
The Israeli artillery also bombed an observation post in the east of Deir al-Balah City in central Gaza.
Meanwhile resistance fighters responded to the airstrikes and fired anti-aircraft guns and missiles at the warplanes over Gaza.
The resistance in Gaza also fired a new barrage of rockets at nearby Israeli communities.
Earlier at dawn a number of rockets were fired from Gaza at Israeli settlements in initial response to the Israeli police aggression against Muslim worshipers at the Aqsa Mosque as they were observing I’tikaf (religious retreat) on the 14th night of the holy month of Ramadan.
According to the Hebrew media nine rockets were fired from Gaza towards Sderot settlement and other settler communities.
Rocket sirens were activated in the Israeli communities around Gaza during the retaliatory resistance attacks.
Israel’s Channel 13 claimed that a factory in Sderot sustained minor damage after being hit by a rocket.
In a related context Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem described the Israeli attacks on Gaza in the morning as an “abortive attempt to prevent the Gaza resistance from supporting its people in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”
“Our people and their valiant resistance in the Gaza Strip and across Palestine will remain a sword and shield for Jerusalem and any attack will never intimidate us but rather it will increase our adherence to our right to support the Aqsa Mosque” the spokesman added.
