Israeli warplanes bomb several locations across Gaza

Israeli warplanes have bombed several locations across the Gaza Strip in violation of a ceasefire that ended a recent fatal aggression on the blockaded enclave.

The Palestinian Information Center cited local sources as saying that Israeli aircraft fired several missiles at an agricultural land in al-Sudania area, northwest of Gaza, and a site in the east of Khan Yunis in the southern part of Gaza Strip on Sunday night.

The air raid followed an earlier Israeli announcement that the authorized fishing zone for Palestinian fishermen in Gaza has been reduced from 12 to six nautical miles. It claimed that the decision was made in the wake of incendiary balloons launched from Gaza towards Israeli settlements.

Earlier on Sunday, Israeli media outlets said the balloons had sparked four fires in settlements near Gaza.

Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, described the Israeli bombing of Gaza as “a failed attempt to show off the regime’s impotent military power and to restore the image of its army totally tarnished by the battle of al-Quds Sword”.

He highlighted the Palestinian resistance’s full preparedness to deal with all options and its resolve not to allow the Israeli occupation to impose its equations.