Atwan:

Hamas Missile Strikes Strong Response to Arab Rulers' Attempts to Normalize Ties with Israel

Rasa - Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, said that the Monday rocket attacks on Israel was a reaction of the Palestinian resistance groups, specially Hamas, to the Arab states seeking to normalize relations with Israel.

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Date: 14 November 2018 - 12:44

RNA - "It was a strong response by the most important member of the resistance front, Palestinians, to attempts to officially normalize ties between the Arab countries and the usurper Israeli regime," Atwan wrote on Tuesday.

He added that the missile attacks showed that the resistance is still alive and strong and is able to change all equations.

Atwan underlined that the Deal of Century promoted by Trump administration will not be materialized, adding that the resistance front in Palestine along with other Muslims will stop the train of normalization of ties with Israeli occupiers whose hands are stained with the blood of the Palestinian nation.

The Palestinian resistance movement on Monday night carried out its most intensive shelling of Israel since the 2014 Gaza war in retaliation for a cross-border commando raid. Gaza's retaliatory anti-tank missile, Kornet ATGM, hit a bus carrying Israeli forces, destroying the vehicle and killing one of them and injuring several.

Also, rocket sirens sounded throughout Southern Israeli settlements, including in Be'er Sheva, Ashkelon and Sderot. The sirens prompted thousands of settlers to rush for bomb shelters.

According to Fars News Agancy, the Israel Defense Forces claimed that the Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted around 100 out of some 400 launches from Gaza.

Hamas claimed responsibility for the massive barrage of rockets and projectiles fired into Southern parts of the occupied territories, near the so-called border fence. The group's military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, warned Tel Aviv it would bomb more places in Israel if attacks on Gaza continued.

Al-Qassam Brigades held the leadership of the Israeli occupation state fully responsible for what happened in Ashkelon, warning that there will be unprecedented strikes against Israeli targets if its aggression does not stop.

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