GAZA (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority on Tuesday ordered the closure of all Gaza Strip commercial crossings only few days after partially opening them at the pretext missiles were fired from the Strip at adjacent Israeli targets.
The IOA said that the closure followed the fall of four Palestinian missiles on the western Negev area but without casualties or damage inflicted.
The Quds Brigades the armed wing of Islamic Jihad Movement declared responsibility for firing a number of homemade missiles at Israeli targets east of Khan Younis to the south of the Gaza Strip at an early hour on Tuesday.
It said that the firing of those missiles was in retaliation to the Israeli assassination of its field commander in the West Bank district of Jenin Jihad Nawahda.
For his part Sheikh Khaled Al-Batesh one of Jihad leaders in Gaza said that the Israeli assassination of Nawahda was a clear message that Israel does not want truce and added that the message would not be passed without reprisal.
He told Quds Press that his Movement was entitled to retaliate to the assassination asserting that such crimes would not deter his Movement or terrorize it.
