The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has struck the coastal city of Tel Aviv in the occupied Palestinian territories with a barrage of rockets on the first anniversary of Palestinian fighters’ historic Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the territories.
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the Gaza Strip-based movement’s military wing, announced carrying out the retaliatory strike on Monday.
The group said it had “bombards the city of Tel Aviv deep inside the occupation with a barrage of Maqadma M90 rockets as part of the ongoing battle of attrition and in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians and the deliberate displacement of our people.”
The projectiles made impact in Tel Aviv’s suburbs, while setting off sirens across the city and its surroundings.
Footage recorded in the strike’s aftermath showed extensive damage to buildings in the suburban area.
Israeli media outlets specified two of the strike’s targets as Holon, the regime’s second-largest industrial zone after Haifa, and the vicinity of the Ben Gurion airport, 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the southeast of Tel Aviv, where two illegal settlers were injured as a result of the retaliation.
The strike has imposed a shutdown on the terminal, and prompted a state of full alert across the occupied territories, they added.
According to the outlets, the Israeli military’s failure to prevent the strike pointed to Hamas’s continued control over the situation in Gaza.
Earlier too, the brigades had announced launching an extensive retaliation against Israeli military targets across the occupied territories, using 114mm Rajum rockets.
