Israeli Warplanes Launch New Airstrikes on Gaza

• Israeli Warplanes Launch New Airstrikes on Gaza
  by https://www.presstv.com/, 5 Feb 2020
  Israel’s warplanes have launched new airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip amid escalating tensions in the region over the US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the century on Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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  Media sources in Palestine said the airstrikes on Tuesday targeted a position belonging to the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement in the city of Rafah, south of the coastal enclave. The warplanes also fired five missiles at Hamas positions in the city of Khan Yunis located in the southern besieged Gaza Strip. Israel has carried out a number of airstrikes on Gaza in the past few days, with Palestinians having responded by launching several rockets into the occupied territories.
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  Tel Aviv claims the attacks are in retaliation for Hamas’ alleged launch of “incendiary balloons” allegedly directed toward the occupied territories. Gaza has been under Israeli siege since June 2007. Since 2008, Israel has waged three wars against Gaza, where about two million Palestinians live under a 12-year Israeli blockade. Thousands of Gazans have been killed in each of these deadly wars
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  Tensions have escalated in the region since US President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called Middle East peace plan last Tuesday. The scheme — which all Palestinian groups have unanimously rejected — largely meets Israel’s demands in the decades-old conflict, while creating a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders.
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  It enshrines Jerusalem al-Quds as “Israel’s undivided capital” and allows the regime to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley, among other controversial terms.
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