For the third consecutive day Palestinian resistance forces have been forced to retaliate defensively to Israeli military border incursions, and land, sea and air attacks.

Members of Jana al-Amur’s family mourn her death

Israeli media revealed that Israeli troops have been continually breaching Gaza’s sovereignty since Tuesday, “working on tunnel detection on both sides of Gaza border.”

The Palestinian resistance has thus far responded to the ongoing Israeli incursions and aggression with mortar and gunfire only.

In a statement issued on Wednesday evening, the Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades said the Israeli incursions since Tuesday morning are a clear violation of the 2014 cease-fire agreement, and a new aggression on the Gaza Strip.

“The Israeli occupation should stop invoking reasons to justify its violations [of Palestinian sovereignty], and should leave the Gaza Strip immediately,” the Brigades said.

Despite ongoing talks for the’restoration of calm‘ brokered by Egypt since Wednesday evening, Israeli forces have continued to launch multiple air strikes and artillery fire, as well as shooting at fishermen from gunboats.

The Israeli military has so far killed 54 year old woman Jana Aytah al-Amur in her home in al-Fakhari east of Khan Younis, and injured at least five other civilians: 21-year-old woman Khazima al-Farra from the al-Rayyanan area of Rafah, 65-year-old Hassan Hassanien from Zaitoun east of Gaza City, and three children from his family.

There have been no confirmed reports of any Israeli casualties.

Deputy head of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh today spoke at a Gaza mosque during Friday prayers, telling the worshippers, “We are not calling for war, but we will not allow incursions at all. The resistance will not allow the establishment of a so-called buffer zone inside the borders of the Gaza Strip.”

An emergency meeting of the Israeli Security Council was held on Friday morning, but no official statements were released following the closed-door meeting.

It is notable that the Palestinian tunnels the Israeli military are attempting to use as justification for their latest breaches of international law have never been used for unprovoked attacks against Israeli citizens, but solely for defensive purposes and during Israeli military aggressions on the Gaza Strip.