News - Middle East - Palestine: Palestinian resistance group have fired a barrage of rockets at the Israeli-occupied cities in response to the regime’s continued bombardments of civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from the latest flare-up rises on both sides.

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that it used SH85 missiles for the first time in the missile strike launched at dawn Wednesday toward Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport, in addition to the A120, M75, J80 and J90 missiles.

Al-Qassam Brigades has fired 110 rockets toward the city of Tel Aviv and 100 others toward the town of Beersheva, as reprisal for the restarting of strikes against civilian homes.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad resistance movement’s military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, announced that 100 rockets had been fired at the cities of Tel Aviv, Ashkelon, Be’er Sheva and Sderot early in the day, Palestine today reported.

Hamas’s military arm also announced that it launched 210 rockets toward the occupied territories early in the morning.

Israel’s Channel 13 has reported that Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza have launched some 1,000 rockets toward different cities in the occupied territories.

Israeli authorities have so far confirmed five deaths as a result of the rockets fired from Gaza on several cities, including Tel Aviv.

Source: Agencies