Gaza City, April 23 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has conducted heavy artillery strikes against the northern Gaza Strip, targeting various locations as the regime’s genocidal war on the besieged territory entered the 200th day.

Israeli artillery shelling struck Jabaliya and Beit Hanoun on Tuesday, causing panic among residents, locals said.

The regime’s tanks entered east of Beit Hanoun amid Israel’s intensified raids, in an attempt to penetrate the town from various directions.  Gunfire was also heard as Israeli tanks surrounded several schools, where families of internally displaced people took shelter, while Israeli artillery targeted shelter centers in the town.

The Israeli regime also bombarded al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, causing significant fires to break out due to continuous shelling and intense bombardment.  The genocidal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip enters its 200th day with no end in sight.

“It was one of those nights of horror that we had lived in at the start of the war. The bombing from tanks and planes didn’t stop,” said a resident of al-Zaytoun.

Local media sources also reported that Israeli boats have targeted beaches in the areas of al-Zawaida, Deir al-Balah, and al-Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza.

Israeli gunboats reportedly targeted the beaches of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.  An Israeli strike also hit the vicinity of Wadi Gaza in the northern part of al-Nuseirat camp. There were also reports of heavy Israeli gunfire east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

In response to the Israeli regime’s intensified raids, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, retaliated by bombing settlements in the occupied cities of Sderot and Niram.

Incoming rocket alerts were sounded in the two southern border towns, although no casualties were reported.

Israel’s military has withdrawn most of its troops from southern Gaza, claiming it had destroyed resistance forces in those areas.

The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, dismisses Israel’s claims, saying the occupying regime was forced to end its operations before achieving its goals.