The group said the shelling was a “reaction to the Zionist massacres and deliberate expulsion of our people.”
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, said they bombed Tel Aviv and its suburbs with two M90 rockets on Tuesday.
The group said the shelling was a “reaction to the Zionist massacres and deliberate expulsion of our people.”
A senior source in the Al-Qassam Brigades was quoted as saying to Al-Jazeera that two rockets were fired from an area where military vehicles of the occupation army are located.
A source within the Al-Qassam Brigades told Al-Jazeera that the two rockets were fired towards Tel Aviv from an area in the Gaza Strip where Israeli vehicles are located.
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Israel’s Channel 13 reported that explosions were heard in Tel Aviv and that an estimated two rockets were fired from Gaza.
The Israeli military said a rocket fired from the southern Gaza Strip landed in the sea off the coast of Tel Aviv and another did not reach the Israeli border.
At dawn last Saturday, the Israeli occupation army carried out a massacre at the Al-Tabaeen School, a shelter for displaced people in Gaza City, leaving over 100 martyrs dead and dozens injured.
The Israeli occupation army admitted to bombing the school and claimed that Hamas militants used the school as a headquarters “to conceal and support various terrorist attacks against the IDF forces and Israel.”
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The Israeli army also made similar claims to justify its repeated massacres in civilian areas, but could not provide any evidence.
With the support of the United States, Israel has been carrying out a devastating genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, leaving more than 131,000 dead and injured, most of them children and women.
More than 11,000 people remain missing amid massive destruction and deadly famine.
This is an evolving story.
(AJA, PC)
