'Massive explosion' rocks central Gaza after Israeli attack

Massive explosion rocks central Gaza after Israeli attack
Date: 22.8.2021 14:00

The Zionist regime has reportedly conducted airstrikes against a refugee camp located in the central part of the besieged Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip.

email Print zoom+ zoom-
The attacks took place in the early hours of Sunday, resulting in a “massive explosion” in the targeted area.
 
Various outlets specified the target as the Nuseirat refugee camp located in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah City.
 
Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network said the exact area struck during the attacks was the Arin base, which is affiliated to Gaza’s resistance groups.
 
The raids come no longer than a day after the regime attacked Palestinian protesters demonstrating on the 52nd anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Mosque arson near the Israeli perimeter fence surrounding the Gaza Strip. 
 
Palestinians were protesting along the border separating Gaza from the occupied territories to mark an arson attack that torched part of the al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969. 
 
At least 41 Palestinians, including 10 children, were wounded during the earlier incident, which saw the forces firing live ammunition against the protesters.
 
Tel Aviv’s indiscriminate raids come while Gaza’s resistance groups, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, have warned it strongly against its tempting another full-scale defensive operation.
 
The last such operation, called Sword of al-Quds, saw the groups rain down around 4,000 rockets on the occupied territories. 
 
The movements staged the defensive campaign in response to the Israeli regime’s last war on the territory that saw it bombing the enclave for 12 straight days during May.
 
The counterattacks started soon after the war began and caused millions of dollars in damage on the occupied territories.
 
The operation forced the regime to desperately call for a ceasefire and initiation of foreign mediatory efforts in order to have the resistance groups stop their rocket barrages.
 
On 21 August 1969, an extremist Australian, Dennis Michael Rohan, attempted to set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque, destroying parts of Al-Qiblah Mosque, the main building inside the Al-Aqsa compound, including the 1,000-year-old priceless wood and ivory pulpit, placed there by the Muslim leader Salaheddin.

YEREL HABERLER

Milli Gazete Puplication Group All Rights Reserved © 2000-2016 - Can not be published without permission ! Tel : +90 212 697 1000  /  Fax : +90 212 697 1000 Software Development and System Support: Milli Gazete