fighting on Israeli soil takes place in several places around the Gaza Strip, according to the army, a local elected official killed

2023-10-07 10:10:11

Warning sirens sounded at dawn. Hundreds of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Saturday October 7. The armed wing of Hamas immediately announced that it had launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation against Israel. These rocket attacks left at least one dead, a woman in her sixties, and 15 injured, according to Israeli emergency services. At the same time, the Israeli army, cited by the Israeli daily Timeclaims that terrorists infiltrated from Gaza through “the sea, the air and the earth”. According to the same source, fighting on Israeli soil is underway and a local elected official was killed during exchanges of fire with attackers. Follow our live stream.

Israel accuses Hamas of starting the “war”. The Palestinian Islamist movement has triggered “a war against the State of Israel”, responded Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In retaliation, the Israeli army announced that several “dozens (of its) fighter jets (were) currently striking a number of targets” of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza residents flee their homes. “We have decided to put an end to all the crimes of the occupation” et “more than 5,000 rockets” have been fired since Saturday morning, said Mohammad Deif, commander of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in an audio recording broadcast by Al-Aqsa TV, the television channel of Hamas, the Islamist movement in power in Gaza. No doubt for fear of an aftershock, hundreds of residents of the northeast of the Gaza Strip fled their homes to head further into the territory, noted an AFP journalist.

The end of the truce observed since May. This operation claimed by Hamas puts an end to a truce generally respected since the end of a five-day war in May. Israel then launched an offensive against Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, which cost the lives of 34 Palestinians and one Israeli woman.