Dozens of Palestinians were martyred or injured since early Tuesday, when the Israeli occupation forces launched their brutal offensive against the besieged strip of Gaza.

Dozens of Palestinians were martyred or injured since early Tuesday, when the Israeli occupation forces launched their brutal offensive against the besieged strip of Gaza.

The Palestinian health ministry put the toll of the Israeli aggression at 24 martyrs and 200 injured, noting that among the martyrs and wounded there are children and women.

Early on Wednesday occupation air forces were staging air strikes in several targets in Khan Younes, in the strip’s south.

For his part, an occupation army spokesman said that the IOF bombed 160 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight.

"Overnight, the IDF (army) hit about 160 targets in the Gaza Strip. Over the past two days we attacked a total of about 430 targets," General Moti Almoz told military radio as Operation Protective Edge entered its second day.

Amoz claimed that the resistance movement, Hamas's weapons stockpile has suffered significant damage over the past two days.

Earlier late on Tuesday, military wings of resistance movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades and al-Quds Brigades announced their fighters have launched dozens of rockets at the Israeli depth.

The cities of Haifa and Khdeira were reached by the Palestinian rockets for the first time in the Arab-Israeli struggle.

The holy city of occupied al-Quds was also reached by the resistance rockets, as well as Tel Aviv, the claimed capital of the occupation entity.