Five Palestinians, including a leader of the Islamic Jihad movement, were killed and 25 others were injured as a result of the continuous Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, in an Israeli escalation, and the threat of continuing the raids for a period that may last, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This coincided with a binding decision by the European Court of Justice to refer to Israeli settlement products. While Palestinians welcomed the European Court's approval of the legality of the labeling of Israeli goods produced in settlements on occupied West Bank territory or the occupied Syrian Golan, Israel quickly rejected the decision, saying it was a tool in the political campaign against it.

In detail, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip confirmed the martyrdom of four Palestinians by Israeli fire yesterday, including the military commander in Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, Baha Abu al-Atta.

The spokesman for the ministry, Ashraf al-Qidra, on the site «Twitter», that «the outcome of the Israeli escalation yesterday amounted to four martyrs and 25 wounded various injuries». Among the martyrs were Abu Al-Atta and his wife, who were martyred due to a raid that targeted Abu Al-Atta's house in Al-Shojaeya neighborhood east of Gaza City.

Later, a Palestinian youth was killed and three others were injured after renewed raids on the town of Beit Lahia, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Ashraf al-Qedra said Zaki Mohammed Adnan Ghanama, 25, was killed in a raid carried out by Israeli aircraft in Beit Lahia.

In another statement, Ibrahim Ahmed Abdel-Rahim al-Dabous, 26, died of his wounds sustained by the Israeli escalation in the northern Gaza Strip. According to a security source, the Palestinian was targeted while on a motorcycle in the town of Beit Lahia, in a raid carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft.

According to a local official, the Israeli warplanes also bombed a house in the northern Gaza Strip; which led to the death of Hamad Attia Musleh Hamouda, (20 years).

For its part, the Israeli army said the raids targeted "two elements of the rocket-launching system of the Islamic Jihad in the northern Gaza Strip." "The raid was carried out to remove an immediate threat." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the current round of bombing in Gaza could take time this time, adding that Jihad leader Bahaa Abu al-Atta was planning a new operation.

"Bahaa Abu Atta was the driving force behind the recent attacks against Israel and was a time bomb," he said.

Netanyahu said at a press conference that the decision to assassinate Abu al-Atta was adopted a week ago unanimously, at the meeting of the security cabinet for security and political affairs. He added: «I was authorized to the security services to choose the right timing» of the assassination.

"Israel is not seeking escalation, but we will do everything to protect ourselves," Netanyahu said. What is needed is lashing and calm. ''

The Israeli army called in reservists, brought in more tanks to the perimeter of Gaza, completely sealed off the sea area and prevented fishing, in a new escalation targeting the Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority presidency condemned the assassination of Abu Atta.

The Presidency said in a statement reported by the official news agency (WAFA): «The Presidency condemned the ongoing Israeli crime against our people in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death of three people, including a citizen and his wife, and the injury of his children after targeting their home in the neighborhood of Shijaia in Gaza City.

The Presidency held the "occupation government full responsibility, and the consequences of the deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip," demanding "the international community to oblige the Israeli government to stop the aggression immediately."

Following the assassination of Abu al-Atta, Palestinian factions fired a barrage of rockets at Israeli settlements around the Gaza Strip and inside Israel. This is the first direct Israeli assassination in Gaza since the end of the 2014 aggression.

The Israeli army said it had detected the firing of 50 rockets at Israel, 20 of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome. In parallel with what happened in Gaza, Israel tried to assassinate a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Jihad movement Akram al-Ajouri, by bombing his house in the Mezze area of ​​Damascus. The group said Ajouri survived, but his son was killed in the air strike.

"At 4:14 am on Tuesday, Israeli warplanes from the occupied Galilee fired three missiles at Damascus," the official Syrian news agency said, quoting a military source. She pointed out that two rockets «hit the house of the leader of the Palestinian Jihad movement Akram Ajouri in the western Mezze neighborhood».

As a result, two people were killed, one of them was the son of Akram al-Ajouri, Moaz, and 10 people were injured.

The Palestinian factions issued a statement threatening Israel, saying that what happened by the enemy is crossing all the red lines, and it puts the enemy before full responsibility for committing these two crimes simultaneously, in Gaza and Damascus.

The Islamic Jihad declared a general exile, vowed to retaliate, and fired several rockets from Gaza towards Israeli settlements, while Hamas announced the evacuation of its government headquarters, and disrupt the study.

On the official Twitter account, the Israeli army published a map of places hit by rockets from Palestinian factions inside Israel.

The map shows rockets falling on the area between the borders of the Gaza Strip and the southern suburbs of Tel Aviv, the commercial center of the Jewish state, and this distance is about 90 kilometers.

In the Gaza Strip, all educational institutions and banks in Gaza were suspended as a result of these developments.

In addition, the European Union called for an end to the escalation "quickly and completely", after the heightened tension between Israel and the Gaza Strip, in the wake of air strikes and rocket fire operations between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

In Brussels, the European Court of Justice issued its final decision yesterday on the marketing of products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories within the European market.

The European Court of Justice ruled that the origin of settlement products should be mentioned, as they were manufactured in Israeli settlements, not in Israel itself.

The court's decision is not subject to appeal and will be legally binding on all EU member states. For its part, the PLO welcomed the EU Supreme Court's approval of the legality of the labeling of Israeli goods produced in settlements on the occupied West Bank or the occupied Syrian Golan.

In a press statement, Secretary General of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat called on all European countries to implement the legal and political obligations resulting from the said resolution.

"Our claims are not limited to the correct marking of the certificate of origin of illegal colonial settlement products, but the prohibition of these products from international markets," Erekat said.

"This provision should remind the international community and prompt it to hold Israel accountable for its systematic violations of international humanitarian law and UN resolutions, including Security Council Resolution 2334," he said.

For its part, Israel "strongly" rejected the European Court of Justice's decision on the labeling of Israeli settlement products, which stipulated that the source must mention the food produced in the occupied Palestinian territories.

"The decision is an instrument in the political campaign against Israel," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "The sole purpose of the ruling is to adopt a double standard against it."

Netanyahu: The decision to assassinate Abu Ata was made a week ago unanimously, at the meeting of the small cabinet.