By KUNA
Gaza : Israeli fighter jets continued to execute air raids over different locations in Gaza Strip early Friday, causing further damage with many more people sustaining injuries.
Witnesses said that at 3:00 a.m., the jets fired at the house of Khalil Ahl, the commander of the manufacturing unit of the Popular Resistance Committee’s Saladin Brigades who was killed in a raid last night.
People in the house escaped death, and the attack came just hours after Ahl and his colleague Mohammad Al-Helo, a field commander with the same brigades, were killed in an air raid close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Furthermore, Radio Israel reported that Israeli planes fired early this morning at the house of Musab Al-Jubair, who was an activist with Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades before he was killed in clashes with Israeli forces in northern Gaza last November.
It claimed that residents of the house were called by the Israeli side and asked to evacuate the house, but they refused to leave.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tzachi Hanegbi told Radio Israel that the Israeli forces had to “reoccupy part of the Gaza Strip for an unlimited time and overthrow the Hamas government” in the wake of a direct hit on a home in Ashkelon.
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, who visited Sderot on Thursday, rejected proposals to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, calling them “populist ideas which I don’t agree with, and in my opinion, no intelligent person does either.
” According to the Haaretz newspaper, Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman later said the violence “may leave us no choice” but to send troops back in, two and a half years after Israel ended its occupation of Gaza.
Early Thursday evening, a Katyusha-type rocket struck an apartment building in Ashkelon, crashing through the roof and slicing through three floors. No casualties were reported.