Israeli occupation planes launched a series of raids on the Gaza Strip yesterday evening after the occupation authorities announced the injury of six Israelis, most of them minor, after a rocket landed on a town north of Tel Aviv, and the Israeli government promised to "respond strongly" to the missile, US President Donald Trump, announced yesterday, a declaration recognizing the sovereignty of the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights.
In addition, two Palestinians were wounded in Israeli shelling of a commercial building in the center of Gaza City. The Israeli occupation forces targeted two missiles at a site west of the city and another in the town of Beit Lahia in the north. In a rocket attack on a house in the town of Mishmeret, north of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said yesterday that he will shorten his visit to the United States, after the fall of the missile, promising to "respond strongly" to the launch.
The occupation army announced the strengthening of the deployment of its forces in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, accusing Hamas movement to launch the missile, while denied a Hamas official, the charges of occupation, and quoted by «AFP», saying: "None of the resistance movements interested in firing rockets from Sector Gaza to the enemy, the same message was handed over to Egypt, which acted as an intermediary between Israel and Hamas. "
The Israeli authorities closed yesterday the Gaza Strip's commercial, maritime and services ports to the movement of goods, individuals, fishermen and humanitarian cases. A number of foreign officials, working in international institutions, left the sector for fear of an Israeli escalation.
In the evening, dozens of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the northern Al-Bireh refugee camp following a march in support of prisoners in the Negev desert prison. The Palestinian presidency condemned the escalation The Israeli government has taken full responsibility for the lives of the prisoners, considering what is being done against them in violation of international law, international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.
On the other hand, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration recognizing the sovereignty of the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights at a ceremony attended by the Israeli Prime Minister at the White House. "It took a long time," Trump said at the signing of the presidential declaration. Is done decades ago ».
Trump pointed out that relations between the United States and Israel are stronger than ever. "The United States recognizes the absolute right of Israel to defend itself," Trump said, describing the missile launch on Tel Aviv as "the ugly attack."
In response to Trump's position on the Golan Heights, the Syrian news agency quoted an official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants as saying that "Trump's recognition of the annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan to the occupying entity is a blatant attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic, Offensive to the international community. "
The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abul-Gheit, condemned in the strongest terms the American recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan, stressing that it was "a false declaration in form and substance".
For his part, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that the Secretary-General of the International Organization, Antonio Guterres, is clear in saying that the situation of the Golan has not changed, adding: «The policy of the United Nations on the Golan reflected in the relevant Security Council resolutions, "Guterres is" very concerned "about recent developments in Israel and the Gaza Strip, and calls on both sides to show maximum restraint.
In 1981, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that "the imposition by Israel of its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and has no legal effect on the international scene."
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