Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called recent Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip a “dangerous escalation.”
The attacks targeted a Hamas military site in the early morning hours of Saturday in violation of an August ceasefire that ended Tel Aviv’s 51-day-long bloody summer war on the Palestinian enclave.
Later in the day, the movement’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri warned Palestinians in a statement of another “foolish” Israeli act, calling upon the international community to carry out its responsibilities toward renewed Israeli aggression.
Several Palestinian political parties have slammed Israel for violating the truce.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine organization called upon the Palestinian people and political parties to be prepared for an Israeli escalation against the Gaza Strip.
Israel unleashed aerial attacks on Gaza in early July and later expanded its military campaign with a ground invasion of the coastal sliver. The Israeli war ended on August 26 with a truce that took effect after negotiations in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Gaza’s health officials say over 2,140 Palestinians, including 577 children, were killed in the Israeli onslaught. Over 11,100 others, including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people, were also injured.
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