Sunday, 28 December 2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Resistance fighters stepped up rhetoric and retaliatory operations Saturday and Sunday launched at least 14 projectiles at Israeli targets following a day of airstrikes that killed more than 200 Gazans.
Israeli media reported that eight were injured when a projectile landed near the city of Ashkelon.
Fatah’s military wing announced that it will resume bombing operations inside Israeli cities and has threatened to hit and destroy the Israeli military and security entities. They also called a state of alert in order to retaliate for Israeli attacks in Gaza.
“The Israelis can choose either to depart or to die on this holy land,” a Sunday statement by the Al-Aqsa Brigades said.
Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades said their fighters launched two homemade projectiles at Ashkelon.
The An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades, the military wing affiliated to the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) fired projectiles at the Zekeim military post and three others at Sderot.
The military wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed to have launched two homemade projectiles at the Israeli town of Nir Oz. Later in the afternoon they fired two Grad missiles towards Ashdod and a homemade projectile at Ami Ayalon.
The military wing affiliated to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the National Resistance Brigades, fired two homemade projectiles at Israel’s Sufa military post near the southern Gaza Strip.
The group said in a statement that the shelling came as part of the ongoing retaliation for the Israeli “massacre” in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli sources said 60 Gazan projectiles landed in Israeli towns since the country began its military operation.
On Saturday one Israeli was killed and five injured.
According to Israeli army radio, Israeli towns bordering the Gaza Strip are “living in a state of worry” and radio reports tell citizens to expect as many as 200 projectiles to be sent over the Gaza wall during the ongoing Israeli attacks.
