Israel strikes in Gaza raise fears of new violence despite truce announcement

The raids, less than a week after the announcement of a truce between Israel and Islamic Jihad fighters in the Gaza Strip, have raised fears of a new spiral of violence, and the Israeli army has called on Israeli civilians living in a radius of 40 km around this territory to remain close to a shelter, in the event of Palestinian rocket fire.

The army announced that its strikes targeted in particular 3 commanders of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, a movement that Israel describes as ” terrorist “. Islamic Jihad confirmed in a statement the deaths of three Al-Quds Brigades officials, whom it identified as Jihad Ghannam, secretary of the Al-Quds Brigades Military Council, Khalil Al-Bahtini, a member of the same council and commander of the brigades for the northern Gaza Strip, and Tareq Ezzedine, ” one of the leaders of the military action of the movement in the occupied West Bank, which he coordinated from the Gaza Strip.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have left 12 dead, including children, and 20 injured, according to the Ministry of Health of this territory, under the control of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. ” We mourn the leaders and their wives and a number of their sons who were killed in a cowardly Zionist crime “Wrote Islamic Jihad in its statement, saying that” the blood of the martyrs will increase the determination ” movement. ” Israel disdained all mediators’ initiatives, resistance will avenge leaders killed overnight “, adds the Islamic Jihad. ” Occupation forces bear responsibility for the consequences of this escalation “, told theAFP Hazem Qassem, porte-parole du Hamas. « The enemy will pay the price for his crime says another statement on behalf of the (in exile) Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, and that “ assassinating leaders (of Palestinian groups) will not bring security to the occupier, but rather strengthen resistance ».

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