Hamas to 'escalate confrontation' if Israeli military attacks besieged Gaza Strip

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has held the Tel Aviv regime responsible for the ongoing escalation in the blockaded Gaza Strip, warning that the movement and others “will escalate the confrontation with Israel” in the coastal sliver if the Israeli military launches attacks against the enclave.

“The Israeli Occupation bears the consequences of continuing to commit its follies against peaceful protesters and deliberately killing them in cold blood as well as bombing sites of resistance,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement on Sunday.  

He further noted that the escalation “will not secure the Occupation or its people.”

The statement came after Israeli military aircraft carried out several airstrikes against multiple locations across the besieged Gaza Strip late on Saturday.

Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported that Israeli warplanes fired at least one missile towards a military site belonging to Hamas east of Gaza City.

Two other sites were targeted, one in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, and another in the city of Khan Younis south of the enclave.

The Israeli airstrikes caused fires to erupt in several targeted sites; however there were no reports of human casualties.

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