By KUNA
Gaza : Palestinian factions launched new attacks with mortar shells against Israeli military positions near Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, claimed responsibility for launching mortar shells on Israeli Army military posts in Gaza.
In a statement, the faction said it launched a couple of mortar shells at the Israeli positions at Erez crossing. The Palestinian activists who staged the attack returned safely to base.
This assault is in retaliation for “Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” it said.
Meanwhile, The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said DFLP operatives engaged in armed clashes with Israeli Army special units near Bait Lahiya town on the Israeli-Palestinian border.
The statement confirmed that the long-lasting confrontations inflicted a large number of causalities among the Israelis, adding that the attack was in “retaliation for the Israeli incursions and crimes against the Palestinian people.”