Hamas has condemned Israel’s attacks on equipment and facilities for rescue operations as “criminal”, Al Jazeera reports.

“The targeting of municipal headquarters by Israeli occupation aircraft and the bombing of heavy equipment designated for rescue and rubble removal, including bulldozers and other machinery, is a criminal continuation of the war of extermination,” the group said in a statement.

Nine bulldozers brought into Gaza from Egypt as part of the recent ceasefire agreement were also destroyed in the attacks, Hamas claimed.

The Palestinian group added: “The systematic destruction of livelihoods and civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip will not succeed in pushing our people to surrender to the malicious displacement plans, nor will it succeed in dissuading them from clinging to their land, their determination, and that of their sons in the valiant resistance, to confront and defeat the aggression, and to achieve our legitimate rights to freedom and self-determination.”