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 Rabic language Palestinian 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.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad resistance movement stated that the ongoing battle in the face of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip has achieved “major goals,” emphasizing that the Palestinian resistance front “insists on achieving victory for al-Quds.”

It said in a statement on Sunday that Israeli US-made F-35 fighter jets pounded the Gaza Strip whilst horrified civilians were sleeping at their homes.

The Islamic Jihad highlighted that the strikes were conducted after Palestinian resistance fighters inflicted heavy losses on the occupied lands which took Israeli officials off guard.

The Palestinian resistance movement went on to say that the Operation al-Quds Sword “will take revenge for the killing of children at the hands of terrorists, who deprived Palestinians of the happiness of Eid al-Fitr, and attacked holy sites during the holy month of Ramadan.”

The statement underlined that Israeli air raids against civilian facilities and residential buildings are “clear proof of the systematic terrorism by the Israeli enemy’s …. army.”

The Islamic Jihad finally decried Washington’s stance vis-à-vis the Tel Aviv regime’s acts of aggression against Palestinians, stressing such an approach “has provided a cover-up for Israel’s atrocities and violations, and made the United States complicit in the regime’s hostilities.”