By KUNA
Gaza : Clashes broke out early Friday between Israeli forces and Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, in southern Jenin, northern West Bank.
The brigades, in a statement, said a group of its activists were stationed at the borders of Qabatya village, southern Jenin, were able to stand up to Israeli tanks that executed an incursion into the eastern area of the town and its old district, leading to the eruption of violent clashes.
It added that the two sides were fighting within meters of each other, adding that the Palestinian activists made several direct hits at Israeli targets.
The clashes came in response to Israel’s policy of detaining Palestinian activists in the West Bank, and to confirm that resistance was the choice it made until such as time that all Palestinian territories were liberated.