AL-KHALIL (PIC)- – The IOF troops have stormed and ransacked at dawn Sunday a number of houses in the old city of Al-Khalil southern West Bank; no arrests or casualties among Palestinian citizens have been reported according to eyewitnesses.
In Nablus large numbers of IOF troops advanced late Saturday night from the Hawara checkpoint into the Balata and Askar refugee camps in the city as clashes took place between the Palestinian resistance and Israeli soldiers without resulting in the kidnapping or wounding of any citizen local sources reported.
Later on midnight Saturday the IOF troops advanced into downtown Nablus amid intensive gunfire and raided and ransacked a number of houses in the area.
In retaliation to the persistent Israeli atrocities against Palestinian people the Qassam Brigades the Hamas’s armed wing managed at an early hour Sunday to fire four 60-mm mortar shells on a gathering of IOF troops along with their armored vehicles east of “Absan” in Khan Yunis southern Gaza in addition to firing three 80-mm mortar shells on Saturday evening at the “Zionist Memorial” east of Beit Hanoun town.
In a joint operation the Quds Brigades the Islamic Jihad’s armed wing along with martyr Yasser Arafat Brigades fired successfully on Saturday night tree upgraded homemade rockets on the strategic coastal city of Ashkelon in 1948 Palestinian occupied lands in response to the assassination of seven Palestinians on Saturday in Gaza in IOF air raids; on the same day the Quds Brigades also managed to fire two “Quds 3” rockets on Sderot settlement located in the northeast of Gaza Strip.
