(KUNA) -- Al-Aqsa Brigades, military wing for the Palestinian Fatah movement, launched three rockets against Sderot city and the western Negev region, in southern Israel. The brigades claimed in a statement that Israeli sources confirmed the attacks and added that the operation came in retaliation to Israeli assassinations and arrests for Al-Aqsa officials in the West Bank. On Friday Al-Aqsa brigades also launched rockets on the Jewish settlements of Kibbutz Saad and Shuvat in the western Negev.