RAMALLAH, Palestine, March 16 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, condemned on Friday, fresh tension in the Gaza Strip, saying that, it is a serious Israeli escalation against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
His condemnation was made in an official statement, published in response to the intensive Israeli air strikes on the coastal enclave.
The statement said, Abbas has been holding “intensive contacts with all parties concerned, to stop the Israeli escalation against the children of our arm-less people.”
Abbas called on his rival Islamic Hamas movement, which seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, to get back to the Palestinian unity and be committed to the signed reconciliation understandings and agreements to avoid destructive wars.
An Israeli army spokesman said earlier that, around 100 targets that belong to militant groups all over the Gaza Strip had been hit, by missiles fired from Israeli air forces.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza told reporters that, four Palestinian civilians were injured in the intensive Israeli air strikes that were waged on the Gaza Strip overnight.– NNN-WAFA
