Middle East Conflict
Israel’s military: renewed rocket fire from the Gaza Strip
Smoke billows after an airstrike in the western Gaza Strip (stock image). photo
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Reaction “to the events in Jerusalem”: Several rockets are fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for the attack.
Militant Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have again fired several rockets in the direction of Israel, according to Israeli reports. The Israeli military said warning sirens could be heard early in the morning in several towns in the border area.
Seven rockets had therefore exploded in the air. According to the information, five of them were aimed at Israeli territory, two of them at the Mediterranean Sea. The night before, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed on Israeli territory. Nobody got hurt. As a rule, after such a shelling, the Israeli military responds with a counterattack.
According to media reports, the militant Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. He was a reaction “to the events in Jerusalem”. The Iran-financed Palestinian organization is primarily active in the Gaza Strip, from where it regularly launches rocket attacks on Israel.
On Wednesday evening, there were clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for the second night in a row. Violent confrontations have repeatedly occurred in the area around the Al-Aqsa Mosque in recent years. Around two years ago, the situation escalated into an eleven-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.