A serious escalation in the Gaza Strip after the assassination of the Israeli leader in Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad - Bahaa Abu al-Atta and his wife, and its targeting of the leader of the movement Akram al-Ivory in Damascus, where the movement vowed to "seismic response", while the Israeli ministerial and security Emergency to discuss field developments in Gaza.

The funeral of Bahaa Abu al-Atta, 42, and his wife at the funeral took place in Gaza City.

The Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adrai announced on his Twitter account that a joint operation of the Israeli army and the General Security Service targeted a building inside the most prominent leaders of Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. He revealed that the operation had been approved by Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Following the assassination, Israel continued its shelling of areas of Gaza, targeting residential buildings, resulting in the death of Palestinians due to shelling targeted a motorcycle in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

The occupation also shelled one of the security headquarters of the Ministry of Interior in the northern Gaza Strip, which has been besieged for more than 12 years.

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"The Israeli enemy will pay dearly after the assassination of Bahaa Abu al-Atta," said Islamic Jihad political bureau member Khaled al-Batsh, stressing that Islamic Jihad had no choice but to confront.

Batsh said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would pay a high price.

Resistance missiles
The resistance fired rockets at the occupation army, and the Israeli army spokesman said that more than fifty rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.

According to "Channel 12" injured four Israelis as a result of a rocket-propelled grenade in Gan Yavne, central Israel. Several houses were also directly hit.

"There is heavy fire," Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters. "We are preparing for several days of fighting."

Al-Jazeera correspondent said schools were closed and shelters were opened in central and southern Israel amid security reinforcements and exceptional measures in settlements and areas 40 kilometers deep from the Gaza Strip.

The martyr Bahaa Abu al-Atta, leader of the Al-Quds Brigades (the reality of social networking)

The Israeli occupation authorities also decided to close all crossings in the Gaza Strip, and closed the maritime area off the Strip for six miles.

The army asked "non-essential" employees in Tel Aviv and central Israel to stay in their homes as well as residents of the border with Gaza, and ordered schools and universities to remain closed and banned public gatherings.

Israeli public radio said more than one million students were absent from school on Tuesday.

The Ministerial Council for Political and Security Affairs also met in Tel Aviv to discuss recent field developments. Israeli media sources said that the meeting reviewed the intelligence situation of what happened in Gaza and scenarios for the coming hours.

The position of "Hamas"
A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" that the nature of the response and the size of the resistance determined by the military forces of the factions on the ground, stressing that the response "should be a deterrent to the occupation and parallel to the crime and prevent recurrence."

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He said that Israel is wrong when it believes that the continuation of the policy of assassinations will succeed in conquering the resistance, pointing out that "what happened today is a continuation of the Israeli occupation policy in targeting the Palestinian people."

For its part, the Palestinian Presidency called for the international community and the UN Secretary General to intervene to force the occupation to stop the aggression.

Syrian television has revealed that at least two people were killed and six others wounded in an attack in the early hours of Tuesday morning targeting a building in the Syrian capital Damascus.

The television said the building was near the Lebanese embassy in the western Mezze neighborhood, which houses Damascus University and many embassies.