Israel launches airstrikes against Gaza after Nablus massacre

Israel has carried out airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, a day after the occupying regime’s forces carried out a violent raid on the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Israeli warplanes pounded targets in the north of Gaza City on Thursday, sending plumes of black smoke rising over one of the targeted locations.

The attacks came hours after the Israeli military alleged in a statement that Palestinian resistance forces launched six rockets from the coastal enclave towards the Israeli-occupied cities of Sderot and Ashkelon at dawn, setting off warning sirens in both towns.

It also claimed that five of the rockets were intercepted, adding that another one landed in an uninhabited area.

There were no reports of casualties or damage.

Palestinian witnesses said they saw at least eight rockets fired.

No Palestinian resistance group has yet claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks. However, the attacks appeared to be in retaliation for the Israeli forces’ raid on Nablus a day earlier, which claimed the lives of at least 11 Palestinians.

More than 100 were also wounded when the occupying regime’s forces stormed Nablus, including a 72-year-old man, a 14-year-old boy, and two commanders of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad resistance movement.

Palestinian resistance groups strongly denounced the attack and vowed retaliation.

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