A Palestinian youth was killed and three others were injured at dawn yesterday after fierce Israeli air raids on Palestinian resistance positions in the Gaza Strip, coinciding with Palestinian calls, asking Britain to apologize for the Balfour Declaration in its 102nd anniversary
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qedra, announced the death of Ahmed Mohammed al-Shahri, 27, from Khan Yunis, from wounds sustained during the Israeli shelling of the town.
Al-Qudra had announced that three citizens arrived at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis to receive treatment for various injuries.
Israeli aircraft targeted 13 Palestinian resistance positions in different areas of the Gaza Strip with dozens of rockets.
Warplanes raided the Badr site, which belongs to the Al-Qassam Brigades, southwest of Gaza City, with three rockets before it bombed the naval position with three others.
Israeli warplanes bombarded the positions of Palestine and Ashkelon, which belong to the resistance in the northern Gaza Strip, with a number of missiles from warplanes «F-16».
In Deir al-Balah, Israeli warplanes attacked the site of al-Qastal with a reconnaissance missile, followed by rockets from a warplane and agricultural land west of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes also raided two resistance positions in the east and west of Khan Yunis and agricultural land in Al-Mentar area, east of Gaza City.
The aircraft targeted resistance positions in Rafah, causing material damage and a number of nearby houses.
A source in the Palestinian factions said that «anti-aircraft land of the resistance has confronted the occupation aircraft, and fired prayers from its fire towards it».
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum blamed Israel for the "consequences and consequences" of the shelling, explaining that "the scale of the attacks that have targeted many resistance positions reflects his prior intentions of destruction and sabotage."
He said that «bombing and targeting the Israeli occupation sites of resistance and the population in Gaza, is a dangerous escalation against innocent civilians».
The rocket fire and raids came after a new day of clashes, in the context of demonstrations «marches of return», near the border with the Gaza Strip with Israel, which injured more than 90 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army announced in statements that at least 10 rockets were fired from Gaza on southern Israel, explaining that the system of "iron dome" intercepted eight of them.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Hamas demanded yesterday that Britain apologize for the Balfour Declaration, which was issued 102 years ago and paved the way for the establishment of the State of Israel.
In a statement, Secretary General of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat called on Britain to "seize the political opportunity to play an active and essential role in solving the political issue of the Palestinian people, which is responsible for it over a century, by apologizing to our people and recognizing its legal and political responsibility for the injustice inflicted on it." with it".
Erekat called for "recognizing the state of Palestine, and pushing practical initiatives to translate its will in deterring the occupation and settlement, and the ethnic cleansing operations led by the occupation authority to establish a racist colonial system, based on the racist national law Walid promised Balfour."
"Although these measures alone will not erase the consequences of colonialism, they will serve as a model for the rest of the international community to carry out its duties to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and around the world," he said.
He added: "It is time for Britain to act responsibly to bring about a qualitative and urgent shift towards the realization of the political rights of the Palestinian people, which Balfour rejected and denied more than a century ago." In denying the political rights of our people, their legitimate and inherent right to self-determination.
Hamas said the 102nd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration "passes on our Palestinian people, and continues to suffer injustice, persecution and continued aggression against its occupied land, its looted sanctities and its dispersed people in refugee camps."
The movement considered, in a statement, that the Balfour Declaration «foundations for the tragedy of the century, and created the largest historical darkness still exist, and established a Zionist replacement entity on our Palestinian land».
Yesterday marked the 102nd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, under which Britain granted Jews the right to establish a national homeland in Palestine.
The promise came in the form of a statement addressed by then British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, in the government of David Lloyd George, to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the global Zionist movement.
Israeli aircraft targeted 13 locations of the Palestinian resistance in different areas of the Gaza Strip with dozens of rockets.