Ma’an news agency said at least five Palestinians were injured in the Israeli attacks.
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Turkey had criticized Israel several times in the past for its attacks on the Gaza Strip, especially after military campaigns between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist organization ruling the Gaza Strip since 2007, which wreaked havoc on the enclave. Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner said Israeli forces retaliated by hitting targets of the Palestinian Islamist movement in northern Gaza.
Israel responded to the attack by striking two sites in northern Gaza that it said were a part of Hamas’ “terror infrastructure”.
Sources in Gaza told MEE that Israel launched more than 50 air strikes during the last 24 hours, in retaliation for rockets fired by the Palestinians that landed in the Israeli city of Sderot.
“Israel will continue to defend its civilians from all rocket fire on our territory, in accordance with worldwide law and our conscience”.
Meanwhile, Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said: “We hold [Israel] responsible for the escalation in the Gaza Strip and we stress that its aggression will not succeed in breaking the will of our people and dictate terms to the resistance”.
“Turkey should think twice before criticising the military actions of others”, the Israeli statement added, without elaborating.
Security around the building was increased, the agency reported.
The Turkish parliament on Friday night approved a deal for Israel to pay $20 million to the families of Turkish participants who were killed in the 2010 Gaza flotilla flagship Mavi Marmara incident, Anadolu reported.
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Just days after Turkish parliament ratifies Israel-Turkey reconciliation deal, Ankara strongly condemns Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Gaza after rockets fired into Sderot; ‘Normalization with Israel doesn’t mean we won’t defend Palestinians’. Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the USA and the European Union, seized control of Gaza in 2007 after days of armed battles against the security forces of the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah faction.
