Hamas Warns of Consequences as Israel Pounds Gaza

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas warned Israel of consequences after Israeli jets and artillery targeted multiple sites in Khan Younis and east of Gaza city.

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Date: 13 January 2019 - 16:55

“The continued acts of folly by the occupation (regime) against the peace protesters along the border fence, (Israel’s) intentional killing of the protesters, and the fire at Hamas targets are a dangerous escalation, playing with fire, that won’t bring security to the enemy and its settlers,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement on Sunday, media reports said.

Israel “will bear the full consequences,” he warned.

Israeli officials claimed that the bombing raids were carried out in response to a rocket fired at Israel late on Saturday.

Witnesses described the regime’s strikes as an “unusually heavy” response to a single rocket that was presumably fired by Hamas and landed in a deserted area in southern parts of occupied territories earlier, resulting in no reported damage or casualties.

In November, Israel struck a ceasefire deal with the leadership of Gaza following an intense two-day border confrontation, triggered by a botched Israeli special forces raid into the strip.

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