26 martyrs in two days .. The occupation continues to bombard Gaza and Al-Quds Brigades: We targeted the heart of Israel

The number of martyrs killed by Israeli shelling since dawn Tuesday to 26 martyrs, while the Palestinian resistance responded with dozens of missiles, and announced "Jerusalem Brigades" targeted "heart" of Israel, amid talk of mediation efforts.

During the two days, the Israeli occupation forces targeted several locations between the southern, northern and eastern parts of the Gaza Strip.

According to Al Jazeera correspondent that the number of injured by Israeli raids more than seventy people, including serious cases.

According to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, among the martyrs were three children and one woman, and among the wounded were 30 children and 13 women.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel does not want to escalate in the Gaza Strip, but will take the necessary steps to defend Israel and protect its population, as he described.

Netanyahu made the remarks at the end of a security meeting held at the Israeli army's southern headquarters in the presence of the defense minister, army chief of staff and head of the General Intelligence.

The Israeli army continues its air raids on different parts of the Gaza Strip, and says it targets Islamic Jihad sites, after it announced the assassination of its leader Bahaa Abu al-Atta on Tuesday.

Fire Resistance
In contrast, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, announced that its missiles had reached military and strategic bases in the heart of Israel during the escalation that began at dawn on Tuesday.

This came in a tweet to Al-Quds Brigades spokesman Abu Hamza, who wrote in Twitter that the companies are challenging Netanyahu and his security team to be bold to allow his military censors to reveal the names and pictures of military bases and strategic reached by the fire of our units.

The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it had fired 400 rockets since Tuesday, from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, according to the channel "Kan" Israeli.

According to the Israeli Ambulance Service, 65 Israelis have undergone various treatments of panic attacks and injuries due to rocket fire launched by the Palestinian resistance factions from the Gaza Strip.

mediation
In the context, an Israeli official revealed that there are efforts by mediators to cease fire between Israel and the Palestinian factions, according to the occupation media.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted an unnamed official as saying that these efforts could succeed and lead to a ceasefire tonight, but pointed out that if these efforts fail, fighting could intensify.

The official channel "Kan" Israeli that the Secretary-General of Islamic Jihad, Ziad al-Nkhala, will go to the Egyptian capital Cairo, for talks with the Egyptian intelligence as part of the truce efforts.

The UN envoy to the Middle East, Nikolai Miladinov, went to Cairo on Tuesday evening in an attempt to mediate the situation between Israel and the Palestinian factions, according to Israeli media.

Solidarity of the West Bank
In support of the Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinians participated in a march through the streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah.

The participants raised Palestinian flags, chanted slogans condemning the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and called on the international community to take action to stop the Israeli bombing and targeting civilians.

Earlier, Anatolia quoted witnesses as saying that clashes erupted Wednesday between dozens of young men and an Israeli force at the northern entrance to Bethlehem, following a march condemning the Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip.