With loud cries and tears, Umm Hadi Al-Za'anin complains about her situation after the Israeli air strikes bombed her multi-storey house in the town of Beit Hanoun, in the far north of the Gaza Strip.

The current field tension began after Israel targeted 3 leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, inside their homes and apartments in the Strip at dawn (Tuesday), which led to their death and a number of their family members in an operation that the Israeli army called the "protective arrow."

After about 35 hours of silence, the joint operations room of the armed Palestinian factions, to which the Islamic Jihad and Islamic Resistance Movements (Hamas) are affiliated, responded by launching a barrage of rockets at Israel in an operation called "Revenge of the Free".

Later, the Israeli army responded by targeting new leaders, Islamic Jihad military sites, houses, apartments, and agricultural lands in various areas of the Strip, while the armed factions continued to fire rockets at southern and central Israel.

As a result, 33 Palestinians have been killed so far, including 5 children, 4 women, two elderly people, and 6 leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, in exchange for the killing of an Israeli after a four-storey building in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, was hit by a missile.

Umm Hadi al-Za'anin, who went out to the alley of her small neighborhood minutes before her house was bombed this morning, told Xinhua, "They bombed the house... It has 100 people (persons). Where can we go, there is no shelter."

And Umm Hadi adds, while 4 elderly women from her neighbors are holding her to calm her down and ease her after her affliction, "The house is the sacrifice of my children, Jerusalem and Palestine... All money is compensated."

The scene seemed difficult among the family members, as two sisters of the grieving Hajjah contented themselves with embracing their father and wept intensely after the destruction of their homes, in which they lived their childhood and their beautiful memories, and it became a pile of rubble.

Sometimes the Israeli intelligence informs the residents of the house a short time ago to quickly evacuate it within minutes because it will be bombed by Israeli warplanes, and at other times it is targeted without prior warning in the event that wanted persons are present in it, which leads to deaths and injuries.

Umm Muhammad Bashir, while sitting on the ruins of her destroyed house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, told Xinhua that her relatives and neighbors received a call to evacuate the area within a short time, in preparation for the bombing of her house.

Umm Muhammad Bashir added, with tears falling from her eyes over the demolition of the house that housed her children and grandchildren, that "reconnaissance planes fired warning missiles at her house, and then the warplanes raided it again after a short time and flattened it to the ground."

Umm Muhammad Bashir, who previously lost her home in 2014, also in an Israeli raid, continues, "The family members quickly left with the clothes they were wearing without taking out any belongings from the two-storey house, which includes 4 housing units."

Umm Muhammad, while wiping her tears with a piece of her clothes, recalls the trees she planted and grew up, but which were destroyed by the raid, saying, "This house means many beautiful memories to us, and it is the home of my children and grandchildren. I have no other shelter."

Palestinian activists circulated on social networking sites (Facebook) dozens of video clips that show the moment the Israeli planes targeted a number of apartments and residential houses in separate areas of the Strip.

A wide wave of sadness prevailed over a video clip of the elderly Abdel-Qader Taha, with a white beard and wearing a turban on his head, from the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, after he entered into a bout of crying intensely over the loss of his home in an Israeli raid.

The old man said while walking on the rubble of the house and banging his fist on his head, "Where do we go after the house (the house) was bombed?" Then one of his sons interrupted him, "In the street, where do we want to sit... It's all for the sacrifice of Palestine."

There was no official Israeli comment on the bombing of apartments and residential homes, except for what was issued by the Israeli army spokesman, Avicadi Adraee, in separate statements that warplanes and drones raided military sites and command headquarters of the Islamic Jihad Movement.

According to the head of the government media office affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Salama Maarouf, Israel's continuous air attacks for the fifth day in a row led to the destruction of 15 residential buildings.

Maarouf said during a press conference at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza today that the continuous air raids on the Strip led to the destruction of 15 residential buildings, including a total of 51 housing units, total demolition.

Maarouf added that 940 housing units were damaged, of which 49 units became unfit for habitation, while the rest of the units were partially or severely damaged, pointing out that the estimated value of initial losses as a result of the military operation is approximately $5 million.
Maarouf explained that the Ministry of Social Development in Gaza provided emergency relief and cash assistance to about 100 families who lost their homes and worked to provide rent allowance and temporary housing for these families.

As a result, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, threatened to renew the Palestinian armed factions' missile strikes from the Strip towards Israeli cities, while continuing to bomb homes in Gaza.

A statement issued by the Brigades said that in light of the continued "bombing of apartments and safe houses, the Palestinian resistance will renew its missile bombardment of the occupied cities as an affirmation of the continuation of the confrontation," noting that "the resistance factions have prepared themselves for months of confrontation and we have a long breath."