On the second day of the attack on Gaza .. New martyrs and Netanyahu vows to escalate

The Israeli occupation forces extended their targeting in the Gaza Strip on the second day, and intensified raids; resulting in the number of martyrs to 23 to the moment, and the number of wounded to about seventy.

In the latest developments, Al-Jazeera correspondent reported the death of two citizens in an Israeli raid targeting a group of citizens east of Khan Younis (south of Gaza).

Al-Jazeera correspondent said that Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the city of Rafah (southern Gaza Strip) and destroyed it completely.

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 the leader Bahaa Abu al-Atta on Tuesday.

The Israeli occupation forces pushed military reinforcements to the border with the Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of his cabinet's special session that Israel would continue to strike at Islamic Jihad, stressing that his forces had destroyed targets he described as important to the group.

Netanyahu said the Islamic Jihad had "one choice": either to stop attacks or to strike more.

Resistance response
On the other hand, the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip continue to fire rockets at Israel.

Al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of Islamic Jihad, announced that a number of Israeli cities and settlements in the Gaza envelope were targeted by dozens of rocket-propelled grenades.

Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement that it hit targets in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ashdod and Ashkelon with high accuracy, and confirmed the continuation of its response to the raids of the Israeli occupation and the assassination of the leader Abu Al-Atta.

Initially, the occupation army announced the monitoring of 190 shells fired from Gaza, and declared a state of alert up to a distance of 80 kilometers, and called hundreds of reservists.

But news agencies reported that the resistance fired about 220 rockets from Gaza into Israel, without causing casualties.

The Islamic Jihad announced that one of the martyrs who rose today is one of its fighters, Khaled Farraj.

During the funeral of Abu al-Atta's body in Gaza, mourners fired in the air and chanted slogans demanding revenge, while Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Batsh said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would pay the price for the assassination of Abu al-Atta, declaring the operation a "new declaration of war." Open. "

Solidarity of the West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, the Anatolia news agency quoted witnesses as saying that clashes broke out 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.

A Palestinian civilian was injured and dozens were suffocated during the clashes.

She pointed out that her crews provided field treatment to dozens of people suffering from asphyxia after inhaling tear gas.