(KUNA) -- Several Palestinian factions claimed responsibility for launching rocket attacks on a number of Israeli targets late Tuesday and early Wednesday. A joint statement by Al-Aqsa Martyrs brigades, the military wing of Fatah and the national resistance brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said members of both brigades launched two rockets at Kfar Aza Jewish settlement, is eastern Gaza. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said in a separate statement that they launched nine rockets after midnight towards Sderot southern Israel in retaliations of the assassination of three Palestinian children in Sheikh Radwan area last night.Israeli army raised the alert level in Sderot after receiving many threats from Palestinian factions of escalating attacks after Israeli war planes launched raids and killed three Palestinian children and injured 14 more.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades also claimed responsibility for blowing up an Israeli military jeep in the old town of Nablus where militants planted a bomb on the side of the road. Separately, a 22 year old activist in Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades was shot dead and two others were injured in armed engagements with the Israeli army in Nablus city. This happened when a special Israeli force, disguised in Arab refugee clothes broke into Ain Al-Ain refugee camp eastern Ramallah. As for the military wing of Jihad Islamic Movement, Al-Quds Brigades, they said one of their cells launched three Quds 2 missiles on Sderot and Nahl Ownz settlement eastern Gaza last night. In the West Bank, 12 Palestinians were arrested by the Israelis in different parts of the city.