After the assassination of Abu Atta .. Israel escalates in Gaza and calls for hundreds of reservists

Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the number of martyrs in Gaza rose on Tuesday, including four Islamic Jihad leader Bahaa Abu al-Atta, who was assassinated and his wife in a dawn raid today, the Palestinian resistance responded with rocket-propelled grenades on Israeli towns, which witnessed almost complete paralysis of the movement, while Tel Aviv declared a state of emergency .

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the Israeli army has called in hundreds of reserve soldiers from different units, where it declared a state of alert and alert in Israeli towns over 80 kilometers from the border of the Gaza Strip, for the next two days.

The Israeli army said that it started this afternoon a new round of raids against targets of Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.

According to Al Jazeera correspondent that the Israeli warplanes targeted a position of resistance in several areas north, south and central Gaza Strip.

Israeli Goals
Israeli warplanes targeted two people on a motorcycle, one of whom was killed and the other injured, according to Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza, Wael Dahdouh. A Palestinian was also killed when targeting another group of citizens in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army said in a statement that its military planes targeted a number of members belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement in the northern Gaza Strip, in preparation for launching rockets.

Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chief of Staff assassinated the leader Abu Al-Atta in a raid in which he also killed his wife, bringing the number of martyrs today to four.

Resistance response
On the other hand, the Palestinian resistance fired a series of rockets at Israeli towns, injuring four - according to the occupation sources - and more than ten cases of panic.

According to Israeli media, the army spotted about 150 rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, and the iron dome system was able to intercept about sixty of them.

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported earlier in the day the closure of schools and the opening of shelters in central and southern Israel, and security reinforcements and exceptional measures in settlements and areas located forty kilometers from the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation authorities also decided to close all crossings in the Gaza Strip.

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

Hamas' position
The head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Ismail Haniyeh said that the policy of assassinations that the occupation considers part of his security doctrine did not and will not succeed in dissuading or changing the doctrine of the Palestinian resistance factions.

In a press statement, Haniyeh announced that the assassination of leader Abu al-Atta and its aftermath cannot be separated from the attempts of the occupation to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

Haniyeh added that "Israeli crimes" come at a time when forces and factions are close to rearranging the Palestinian house.

He also stressed that the occupation seeks to mix the cards in a desperate attempt to block the road to restore Palestinian national unity.

Hamas has said that the nature and size of the response of the resistance is determined by the military forces of the factions on the ground, pointing out that the response "must be a deterrent to the occupation and parallel to the crime, and prevent the recurrence."

She also said that Israel is wrong to believe that the continuation of the policy of assassinations will succeed in conquering the resistance, adding that "what happened today is a continuation of the policy of occupation in targeting the Palestinian people."

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

For its part, the Palestinian presidency announced that it called on the international community and the UN Secretary General to intervene to force Israel to stop the aggression.

Israel, which remained silent about it, also targeted dawn today the leader of the Islamic Jihad Akram al-Ajouri at his home in the Syrian capital, where his son was martyred.

Syrian television has revealed that at least two people were killed and six others wounded in the attack in the early hours of this morning.