(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Hamas Movement said Israel's military aggression against the Gaza people cannot be tolerated and must be curbed, describing the counterattacks on Israeli targets as legitimate.
In a press release on Saturday, its spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated that the Israeli regime was the side that started its incursions and attacks against Gaza and the Palestinian resistance cannot allow it to impose its equations on the Palestinian people.
"Our resistance to the occupation and its Zionist soldiers are legitimate," spokesman Barhoum said.
The spokesman held the Israeli government fully responsible for all the consequences and implications of its escalation and emphasized that his Movement would not let the Palestinian blood to be a price for Israeli political and electoral gains.
In retaliation to Israel's latest crimes in Gaza, a number of resistance factions swiftly launched on Saturday counterattacks on Israeli settlements and military outposts.
The armed wing of some resistance factions like Al-Quds Brigades, Salahuddin Brigades and Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades said in different communiqués that their resistance fighters fired a barrage of projectiles on Israeli targets.
The Israeli artillery killed at least four Palestinians and wounded 25 in the Gaza Strip yesterday after a resistance attack on an Israeli military force that infiltrated into a Gaza border area and killed a child during an incursion.
The death toll on Saturday has been one of the highest since Israel escalated its aggression against Gaza in recent months.
At least five of the wounded, some of them children, are in very critical condition, Palestinian medical sources said.
Residents reported that a mourning tent in Shujaiya neighborhood near Gaza city was full of people offering condolences to a bereaved family when an Israeli artillery shell struck.
Ambulances, private cars and motorbikes rushed the casualties to hospital, eyewitnesses said.
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