RAFAH (PIC)– Israeli warplanes on Monday night renewed shelling of the Rafah border area to the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip after shelling it in the morning local sources reported.
They said that Israeli F-16 warplanes launched two separate air raids on the border strip near the Rafah border gate firing two rockets.
The shelling caused powerful blasts but no casualties were reported the sources said adding that the shelling apparently targeted tunnels used to channel goods to the Strip in light of the closure of all Gaza crossings.
Meanwhile the PA health ministry in Gaza said that it ran out of units of negative blood components and appealed to citizens having negative blood components to donate to the nearest hospital to their homes.
In the West Bank Israeli occupation forces rounded up 60 Palestinians in various towns and villages over the past 24 hours.
The Hebrew radio on Tuesday said that the campaign of arrests was reported in Tulkarem Qalqilia Al-Khalil and Bethlehem.
Dr. Abdul Sattar Ibrahim Qassem a professor of political science in Al-Najah University said that the IOF soldiers burst into and wreaked havoc in his brother’s home in Deir Al-Ghusun village Tulkarem district.
He added that the soldiers took away his brother Sheikh Qassem Ibrahim Qassem the Imam of the village’s mosque and added that the Sheikh was previously detained on several occasions by the IOF troops.
