The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has called for international intervention in a bid to prevent another Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip.
The plea comes after the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom warned on Friday that Tel Aviv would launch another large-scale military operation against the Palestinians trapped in the Gaza Strip in the near future.
Shalom made the remarks after Israel carried out a series of air strikes, injuring three Palestinian children, aged two, four and 11.
According to Shalom, a forthcoming military attack will be in response to rocket fire from Gaza.
Earlier on Friday, a Qassam rocket was launched at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip and landed in an open area outside the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon region, causing no injuries. Hamas did not claim responsibility for the attack. However, Israel responded by carrying out six waves of air raids overnight against the beleaguered Gazans.
Some Palestinian groups say the attacks — with the home-made and ineffective Qassam rockets — are in retaliation to Israel's three-year-long blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has deprived the resident from their basic necessities.
Hamas has emphasized that it is looking to calm the situation. In an April 1 phone conversation with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Chairman of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Mashaal said: "Hamas is not interested in the escalation of tensions and is taking corresponding measures to prevent missile strikes from the Gaza," reported ITAR-Tass News Agency.
Israel launched a large offensive against the coastal strip in 2008 that killed some 1,400 Palestinians — most of them non-combatants — and a number of Israeli officials face war-crimes charges as a result of the indiscriminate onslaught.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122298§ionid=351020202.
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