Palestinian fighters target Israeli warship off Gaza coast

Palestinian resistance fighters have targeted an Israeli military vessel off the coast of the Gaza Strip as the Tel Aviv regime continues its bombardment of the besieged enclave and the violence enters a second week with no sign of an end to the hostilities, despite growing international concern.

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas resistance movement, announced in a statement on Monday afternoon that an Israeli battleship had been hit off the coast of the Gaza Strip, with a barrage of missiles, the Arabic-language Palestine al-Aan news agency reported.

The statement added that the missile attack came after the Israeli military launched fresh series of air raids on the Gaza Strip early on Monday.

The al-Qassam Brigades highlighted that it had renewed shelling Erez kibbutz in the southwestern part of the Israeli occupied territories, which lies just one kilometer north of the Gaza Strip, and Hatzerim Israeli Air Force Base on the western outskirts of the Israeli city of Beersheba.