At least eight Palestinian citizens were reportedly injured when the Israeli occupation army on Monday afternoon launched renewed attacks on different areas of the embattled Gaza Strip.
According to the health ministry in Gaza eight wounded citizens were rushed to al-Shifa Hospital from areas bombed in the east of the coastal enclave.
One citizen was injured when an Israel warplane bombed a motorcycle in al-Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City.
Meanwhile the National Resistance Brigades the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the armed clashes with the Israeli occupation forces at the Erez army post on Monday evening.
The Brigades said its fighters used machineguns and RPG and mortar projectiles when attacked the military post adding that one of its fighters was injured during the clashes.
Israeli air raids on Gaza continued intensely throughout the afternoon and evening of Monday targeting civilian and resistance structures and areas. The Israeli occupation army claimed its attacks on Gaza were in response to persistent rocket fire by the Palestinian resistance.
However the military escalation started after Israeli forces brutally killed a Palestinian citizen desecrated his body and injured others inside a Gaza border area on Sunday.
An Israeli overnight air raid on Damascus on the same day also claimed the lives of two Palestinians affiliated with the Islamic Jihad Movement.
Such Israeli crimes provoked the Palestinian resistance to launch counterattacks on Israeli settlements and military targets.
