RAFAH (PIC)– Israeli warplanes launched a series of air raids on the Rafah border strip and Khan Younis city in southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what became a semi daily military escalation since Israel announced a unilateral ceasefire in its war on Gaza.
Security sources told PIC correspondent that Israeli F-16s fired at least one missile at the main police headquarters in Khan Younis city starting fire in the premises and destroying a mosque inside the security complex.
The sources recalled that the same site was repeatedly targeted by the Israeli warplanes.
Adel Zu’rub the spokesman for the Palestinian crossings and borders authority told the PIC that the Israeli warplanes launched four air raids on the border strip in Rafah at 01.00 am Wednesday.
He said that no casualties were reported but material damage was inflicted on residential quarters.
The Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday rounded up ten Islamic Jihad activists in Tulkarem city and its various villages.
Sources in the city told PIC said that the IOF soldiers arrested Subhi Al-Du’ma after ransacking his home and confiscating his computer and private papers. Subhi’s brother Ibrahim has been held in Israeli occupation jails for almost a year while a third brother Abdul Qader was killed a the hands of IOF troops three years ago.
They added that the IOF soldiers closed down a charitable society run by Islamic Jihad after arresting its chairman his deputy and two of its board members.
Local sources said that the soldiers wreaked havoc in the building that housed the society other than destroying furniture and property of the society itself.
They noted that IOF armored vehicles deliberately crashed into five cars in the vicinity of the building.
