The Zionist entity launched early on Wednesday two airstrikes on Gaza strip killing one Palestinian and injuring five others.

The Zionist entity launched early on Wednesday two airstrikes on Gaza strip killing one Palestinian and injuring five others.

According to a statement released by the Islamic Jihad Movement, two Israeli air raids hit east of the Zeitun neighborhood in the Gaza Strip.
Ismail al Areer, 22, a member of Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, was martyred in the raid and five other members of the movement were also injured.

Spokesman of Health Ministry in Gaza Adham Abu Salmia said the incident took place when Israeli occupation troops entered a buffer zone east of Gaza City. Palestinian militants then engaged the troops in a gun battle before an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at the gunmen.

For its part, the occupation military said in a statement that their aircraft targeted “two terrorist squads preparing to launch rockets at Israeli soldiers” from two different locations within the northern Gaza Strip.