Gaza – Ma’an – The armed wings of the Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) separately claimed attacks on Israeli forces operating inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

Israel's military denied both reports.

Saturday marks the eight-year anniversary of the PFLP assassination of the ultra right-wing Israeli tourism minister, Rehavam Ze'evi, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in East Jerusalem.

That attack was in response to Israel's assassination a month earlier of Abu Ali Mustapha, the leftist Palestinian movement's late leader and namesake of its recently renamed military wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades.

The PFLP wing said its forces fired four mortars toward the Israeli military post of Netiv HaAsara, west of the Erez crossing near the northern Strip, but their statement made no mention of the assassination anniversary.

In the south, the An-Naser Salah Ad-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the PRC, said it fired three mortars at Israeli military vehicles moving from the Sufa to Rafah crossing areas.

The brigades said in a joint statement that "the attack came in response to continued Israeli invasions" and to reaffirm the right to resist.

An Israeli military spokesperson said there were no reports of attacks in either area.

Ma'an could not independently verify either claim.