This morning, the Israeli occupation warplanes launched a series of raids on a site of the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli army spokesman confirmed that these raids came in response to a missile fired from the Strip towards Ashkelon.
In a statement posted on its Twitter account, the Israeli occupation army said that its warplanes bombed a number of targets belonging to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, noting that the raids targeted weapons production workshops in a military site affiliated with Hamas, and 3 sites were targeted. other military.
On the other hand, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem confirmed that the bombing of Gaza is an extension of the aggression that targets all Palestinian land in Jerusalem, the occupied interior and the West Bank.
Al-Jazeera Net correspondent in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, said that the Israeli warplanes targeted, with eight missiles, a site of the Al-Qassam Brigades south of Gaza City, which led to great destruction inside the site.
# Video of the Israeli bombing that targeted the Salah al-Din site of the resistance in the central Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/k2u8DcDDo1
— Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) June 18, 2022
Al-Dahdouh added that the Israeli raids targeted a group of advanced monitoring points belonging to the resistance factions in Gaza, Jabalia and Beit Hanoun, stressing that there is no talk of casualties or injuries.
According to Al-Jazeera correspondent, Israeli gunboats participated in the attack, and they also fired at Palestinian fishermen's boats at sea.
The Israeli occupation army had announced that one rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip late Friday, but the Iron Dome intercepted it without causing any casualties or damage.
So far, no statement has been issued by the Palestinian factions, confirming or denying the launch of the rocket.
And earlier last night, the artillery of the occupation army bombed with a number of missiles the vicinity of the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, and an Israeli reconnaissance plane targeted agricultural land near the security fence in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip with two missiles.
Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli bombing caused material damage, but no casualties in the targeted area.
balloon control
Yesterday evening, Friday, Israeli military sources said that a surveillance balloon fell over the Beit Hanoun crossing in northern Gaza, denying that it was caused by the fire of the Palestinian resistance, while local sources indicated that members of the resistance took control of the balloon after it fell.
The occupation army spokesman said, "Today, the IDF's reconnaissance balloon went off and fell inside the Gaza Strip. There is no fear of a tangible leak of information. The circumstances of the accident will be investigated. It is a normal situation on the home front."
While the occupation army did not provide further details, Palestinians from Gaza circulated on social networks a video clip showing the remains of a balloon lying on agricultural land.
The Israeli army uses several balloons equipped with surveillance cameras to monitor the border areas of the besieged Gaza Strip.
A painful security blow to the occupation!!
A short while ago, the Palestinian resistance managed to shoot down a military balloon belonging to the occupation army in the Beit Hanoun area in the northern Gaza Strip, and controlled it and transferred it to a safe place.
Equipped with high-definition cameras and spy equipment, the balloon is now in the hands of the resistance fighters.
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— Muhammad Al-Madhoun (@mohamed_mdn) June 17, 2022
Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli drone fired a missile at a border agricultural area near the place where the balloon fell, but no injuries were reported.
Witnesses also reported that shooting was heard in that area, coinciding with the flight of Israeli drones.
Jenin martyrs
In the West Bank, the Palestinians attended the funeral of 3 young men in Jenin who were killed by the occupation forces at dawn yesterday, Friday, during an incursion into the city, which also resulted in the injury of 8 others.
The Palestinian presidency said that the execution of the three martyrs was an Israeli response to US demands to stop the escalation before US President Joe Biden's visit.
Yesterday, Friday, Palestinian media published scenes from the farewell moments of 3 young men who were martyred in Jenin, where Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that about 30 military vehicles stormed the city at dawn on Friday and set up an ambush, and surrounded a car in the Al-Jarrah neighborhood, then shot 4 young men who were inside, killing them. 3 The fourth was seriously injured, before withdrawing.
For its part, Hamas confirmed that the assassination will not pass without reckoning, stressing that the Palestinian people and their resistance know "how to strike the enemy."
After the funeral of the martyrs, the Chief of Staff of the Israeli occupation army, Aviv Kohavi, said, "Several divisions, including soldiers from the Golani unit in the Jenin area, carried out a night-time campaign of arrests. One of these forces identified a suspicious car, and there was a cohesion and confrontation led by the division's leaders, and they thwarted a terrorist cell and killed 3."
He added - in a speech before Israeli soldiers - that no country in the world is threatened as Israel is, and there is no country in the world that deals with this many enemies and at the same time works on all these fronts to deter them, as he put it.