Israeli drone strikes position in Gaza: Security source

By Nour Abu Aisha and Hani al-Shaer

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - An Israeli drone on Wednesday struck a site affiliated with a Palestinian resistance faction in the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to a local security source.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told Anadolu Agency that the drone had fired two rockets at a watchtower affiliated with a Palestinian resistance faction -- the source did not say which one -- near Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, no deaths or injuries have been reported as a result of the strike, on which the Israeli authorities have yet to comment.

For the last seven months, Palestinians in Gaza have been staging regular demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to demand the right to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948.

They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.

Since the rallies began on March 30, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed -- and thousands more injured -- by Israeli troops deployed along the other side of the buffer zone.