Batch: Israel aims to push Gaza by pogrom

Islamic Jihad Movement on Monday said that the savage massacre in Beit Hanun that killed an entire family fell in line with the Zionist policy of forcing the Palestinian people to surrender and to accept occupation's dictates.

Khaled Al-Batch, a senior leader of the movement in Gaza, told Palestinian Information Center(PIC) that the Israeli occupation authority's repeated crimes point to its refusal of calm.

All should bear their responsibilities vis-à-vis such massacres especially the Arab countries and the UN Security Council that has been silent for years over the constant Israeli bloodbaths in lines of the Palestinian people, he elaborated.

"The Zionist enemy wants to embarrass Egypt and to foil its efforts (to bring about calm in Gaza)", he opined.

Batch said that Cairo should intervene to stop those massacres and to protect the Palestinian people.

Zionist regime's troops shelled and martyred seven Palestinians in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza, early Monday, including a mother and her four children, while ten others were wounded mostly women and children.