Israeli tanks attack Gaza and injure 2 Palestinians

Gaza - Israeli tanks stationed near the Gaza Strip's border with the occupied territories have opened fire on the southern part of the coastal strip blocked by Tel Aviv, wounding two Palestinians.

The tanks, "stationed near the Khan Yunis border fence, fired several shells at a site and farms east of the city," the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Wednesday, citing one of its correspondents.

The wounded "were taken to the hospital," it said.

The Israeli regime occupied the Gaza Strip adjacent to the Palestinian territory of the West Bank in 1967 during a Western-backed war. The regime withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 but routinely keeps the coastal strip under deadly attacks and a crippling blockade.

Also on Wednesday, the Palestinian Information Center news agency reported the launch of a rocket from the direction of the Strip towards the occupied territories.

The report identified the projectile's target as the illegal Israeli settlement of Nir Am in the western part of the occupied territories.

The development comes after at least six Palestinians were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in a raid by Israeli forces on the Jenin refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank a day earlier.

The death toll killed by Israeli regime forces since the beginning of the year has risen to 61.

Palestinian resistance movements, including Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have condemned the deadly attack and vowed harsh revenge.