Israeli tank shells besieged Gaza Strip

Gaza City, April 24 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has bombarded the besieged Gaza Strip, calling the assault a response to alleged rocket fire, as the Tel Aviv regime continues with its acts of aggression against the blockaded Palestinian enclave. 

In a statement issued following the attack, the Israeli military said that an Israeli tank attacked an outpost purportedly run by the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement at around 2:40 a.m. local time on Saturday.

It further claimed that the attack was conducted in retaliation for two rounds of rocket attacks, saying that the first three rockets had been fired from the Gaza Strip toward the occupied territories at around 11:00 p.m. local time on Friday.

The statement added that one of the projectiles was intercepted but the two others landed in open areas near the town of Kissufim, in the Eshkol Regional Council, in the vicinity of the Gaza fence.  

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in the alleged rocket attacks, but the Israeli military said that sirens were sounded across almost all parts of the occupied territories.

Palestinian resistance groups carry out occasional rocket attacks against the occupied territories from the sliver that has been under a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007 and has experienced three full-scale Israeli wars.