An Israeli airstrike on Sunday evening killed a Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis and wounded three others, including one with critical injuries.
Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza Ashraf Al-Qidra revealed that the man killed was a member of Hamas.
Anadolu news agency reported the spokesperson of the Israeli occupation army, Peter Lerner, confirming the strike and saying that Israel’s air forces attacked a group of Palestinians allegedly planning to fire rockets into southern Israel.
Lerner added that the self-defence system known as Iron Dome had intercepted two Palestinian rockets and blamed Hamas for firing the rockets from Gaza into Israel.
For the last two weeks, Israeli occupation forces have been striking different areas of the Gaza Strip, claiming that they are targeting Hamas’s infrastructure. Scores of causalities, including another death on Friday, have been reported as a result of the Israeli attacks.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces have been carrying out a ground operation against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 12 June, when three Israeli settlers went missing near Hebron.
During this campaign, Israeli occupation forces have killed five Palestinians and arrested hundreds, including 23 Palestinian MPs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to condemn the killing of Palestinians, calling the occupation’s killings an act of self-defence.