Palestinian resistance factions today targeted a number of Zionist occupation settlements and bulldozers in renewed escalation of attacks following a period of relative lull due to the PA presidential election. The Qassam Brigades, military wing of the Hamas Movement, today declared responsibility for firing four mortar shells at the Nitsar Hazani settlement and three others at the Neveh Dekhalim settlement, both in the Gaza Strip.For its part, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Quds Brigades, today fired two Quds-1 missiles at the Gush Katif bloc of settlements in the Strip. The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, PFLP military wing, also today fired a Sumud missile at the same bloc of settlements. The Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, military wing of the Fatah Movement, today said it fired an RPG at a Zionist bulldozer last night to the west of Khan Younis city and affirmed that it scored a direct hit as the bulldozer was seen ablaze. Zionist sources today acknowledged that two mortar shells fell into a settlement in the Strip and a Qassam missile blasted near the Sderot settlement in the 1948 occupied lands adjacent to the Strip.