The Israeli regime has bombarded a number of locations in the east of the Gaza Strip as part of its crackdown on protesters who have gathered along the fence separating the strip from the occupied territories.
The Israeli military said a drone hit two military posts on Friday belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.
Separately, an Israeli tank hit another military post, claiming that shots were fired from there towards Israeli troops confronting protesters.
The regime claimed these were a response to incendiary balloons aired by Palestinians causing fire in the occupied territories.
The Hamas-affiliated radio station Aqsa said two people had been wounded in the strikes.
Palestinians in Gaza have been holding protests along the separation fence for days over the regime’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners and provocative visits by settlers to the Al Aqsa mosque compound.
On Friday, the health ministry said 28 Palestinian protesters had been wounded by Israeli troops, which came days after a protester was shot dead by troops.
Hamas has reacted to the Israeli attack, with its spokesman Abdel Latif al-Qanoua saying the assaults are a continuation of the Israeli aggression.
“It comes in the context of continuous and extended Zionist aggression against all our people in an attempt to break his will and defeat his will.
The spokesman stressed that the Palestinian people have the right to express their anger and engage in resistance in all its forms and use all the tools at their disposal against the Israeli occupation.
Israel’s violence against Palestinians has escalated in recent months under what is seen as the most right-wing Israeli Cabinet.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed this year in the occupied Palestinian territories and Gaza.
Those figures indicate that 2023 is already the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the United Nations began keeping track of fatalities in 2005.
Previously, 2022 had been the deadliest year with 150 Palestinians killed, of whom 33 were minors, according to the United Nations.
