(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Ezz-Eddin Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas movement, carried out its earlier threat to Israel and fired six brand new J-80 rockets at Tel Aviv and Bat Yam Saturday night.
The resistance group has vowed in an audio message in Hebrew, aired by the pro-Hamas Al-Aqsa TV channel a few hours ago, to deal "a historic blow" to Israel at 9:00 p.m. Saturday, and asked the Israeli and Palestinian mass media to focus their cameras on Tel Aviv.
The group also threated that its fighters will launch "martyred" (suicide) attacks, with whatever weapons available even knives, on the Jewish settlers and the Israeli occupation authorities.
The new rocket is apparently named after martyr Ahmad Al-Jaabari, a Hamas leader who was killed in an Israeli drone attack two years ago.
The firing of the new rockets aims to send a clear message of defiance to Israel that the group is able to launch more missiles attacks despite the intensive presence of Israeli drones and troops in the skies of, and around, Gaza.
Israel Radio admitted that the Palestinian rockets hit the central coastal cities of Herzliya and Bat Yam as well as Tel Aviv.
Ten missiles hit Tel Aviv and some of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, a military source told the radio in an attempt to allay the concerns of the Israelis over the rocket attacks.
Alert sirens were sounded today in multiple Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv, Netivot, Rishon Lezion, Ashdod, Sderot, Be'er Sheva, Merhavim, Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Herzliya, Rehovot, Yavne, Nes Tziona, Lod, Ramle, Kiryat Malachi and Ashkelon, as well as occupied Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh and the Dead Sea area.
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