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Islamic Jihad says new missiles capable of reaching deep inside Israel

Monday, 25 February 2019 8:52 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 25 February 2019 9:38 AM ]

A picture taken from the Gaza Strip on November 12, 2018 shows missiles being launched toward Israel. (Photo by AFP)

Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad says it has developed missiles that could strike Israeli-occupied Jerusalem al-Quds, Tel Aviv, Netanya and even farther targets inside the occupied territories.

A senior member of the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, al-Quds Brigades, made the comment in a documentary, which was broadcast on Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam news channel.

The official stressed that Islamic Jihad is now in possession of more precise missiles.

The documentary also filmed the military drills of al-Quds Brigades conducted to stimulate how the resistance group would storm an Israeli military base and completely purge it, using heavy weapons.

According to the documentary, the attack would be a part of the group’s reaction to any aggression on the besieged strip.

Israel has launched several wars on the Palestinian coastal sliver of land, the last of which began in early July 2014. The military aggression, which ended on August 26, 2014, killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians. Over 11,100 others were also wounded in the invasion.

The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli siege since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.

The Israeli regime denies about 1.8 million people in Gaza their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, jobs with proper wages as well as adequate healthcare and education.

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