Hamas and Al Fatah condemn the bombing of the Gaza Strip

Aug. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Fauzi Barhum, said on Friday that Israel “has committed a new crime” after initiating a bombing operation against targets of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.

The group’s spokesman has indicated in a statement that Israel “must pay the price and take full responsibility”, while stressing that “the resistance, with all its military arms and factions, are united in this battle”.

On the other hand, the spokesman for Al Fatá, Munther al Hayek, has denounced that the bombing of the Gaza Strip, as well as “attacking and intimidating unarmed civilians, is a new crime that adds to the crimes committed by the occupation forces Israelis” against the Palestinian people.

In this sense, he has called on the international community and mediators to “intervene immediately to prevent the occupation from committing massacres,” according to a statement from the group collected by the WAFA news agency.

The Israeli Army announced this Friday the beginning of a bombing operation against targets of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip after several days on alert for possible retaliation by the organization after the arrest in the West Bank of a senior official. of the group.

This new operation has its immediate motive in a raid carried out on Monday by Israeli forces in a refugee camp in Jenin, which resulted in the death of a Palestinian teenager and the arrest of Basam Saadi, a senior member of Islamic Jihad, as well as like his son-in-law, Ashraf al Jada. The organization promised retaliation after the operation.