(AhlulBayt News Agency) - 60 Israeli airstrikes rocked the northern corners of the blockaded Gaza Strip overnight Sunday, resulting in injuries.
Spokesperson for the Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry, Ashraf al-Qudra, said a 17-year-old boy was injured with missile shrapnel in his feet at the same time as a state of traumatic panic overwhelmed three children for fear of being killed in the heavy shelling.
Interior Ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bazm said the Israeli warplanes launched over 60 airstrikes on northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army further targeted the enclave with heavy shelling.
The strikes targeted training sites for the Palestinian resistance groups of Hamas, al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, among others.
Sounds of violent explosions were detected in northern Gaza Strip. Remarkable material damage was inflicted on Palestinian lands and infrastructure. Israeli warplanes kept hovering over the territory, signaling the imminent launch of other attacks.
The Interior Ministry spokesman added that the security forces and police have been providing the casualties and civilians with the needed assistance.
The escalating strikes occurred a few hours after reports were released on an Israeli air raid over Beit Hanoun at around 10 p.m, without immediate details on possible casualties or material damage.
Israeli F16 warplanes fired two missiles in Beit Hanoun. 10 artillery shells also rocked the city’s eastern corner moments after.
Earlier in the day, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qudra, announced that a young Palestinian man in his twenties was injured in his head as a result of an Israeli artillery shelling targeting a resistance training site in Beit Hanoun.
Local sources said three artillery shells fired by the Israeli occupation army targeted an agricultural land in al-Misriyine neighborhood in Beit Hanoun.
Furthermore, Israeli artillery shells landed in the Filistin training ground which Hamas fighters use for resistance drills.
The missiles were fired minutes after the Israeli army alleged that a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip and hit the city of Sderot, with no injuries or damage reported by the Israeli army.
The Israeli occupation forces have often launched airstrikes at several sites allegedly used by Palestinian resistance groups in the besieged coastal territory in response to rockets fired from the enclave.
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