Israel shelled the Gaza Strip after reporting Palestinian rocket fire

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The Israeli armed forces accused an attack in the south of the country, hours after an operation in the West Bank in which eleven Palestinian citizens were killed.

Israel shelled the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a day after an operation in the occupied West Bank that killed eleven Palestinians, including a minor and six militants. He did so after reporting that Palestinian fighters launched six rockets from that area towards the south of his country.

“A few moments ago, fighter jets attacked a weapons manufacturing center belonging to the terrorist organization Hamas, located in the center of the Gaza Strip”, as well as “a military complex in the north of the Strip” belonging to the same organization, an Israel Army spokesman said in a statement.

That complex, which was also used as a naval weapons warehouse, is located next to a mosque, a medical center, a school, a hotel and a police station, added the same source, considering that Hamas, an Islamist organization that governs de facto in Gaza since 2007, “deliberately situating its (war) assets in the heart of civilian areas.”

These bombardments, which according to the Israeli authorities “significantly damaged the capabilities” of Hamas, were carried out in response to the six rockets fired hours earlier from the enclaveand which sounded the anti-aircraft alarms in the Israeli towns of Ashkelon, Sderot and the area surrounding the Strip.

“Five of the rockets were intercepted by the air defense system and a rocket fell in an unpopulated area,” the Army spokesman said. The targets were the cities of Ashkelon and Sederot.



Israel’s air defense system intercepted five rockets. Photo REUTERS/Amir Cohen

So far, no Palestinian militia has claimed responsibility for the rocket fire, and no casualties have been reported on either side, although they appeared to be executed in retaliation for Wednesday’s operation in Nablus, which killed 11 Palestinians, including a minor, and left another hundred injured by shots from the Israeli Army, in one of the most violent days in the area in recent years.

According to the Israeli forces, their operation was “aimed at arrest suspects involved in attacks” against Israelis, who were also already planning new attacks.

israeli troops killed the three Palestinians who were looking forHossam Aslim, Muhamad Fatah and Walid Dahil.

Among the death toll from the raid, which led to violent riots and shootings in the center of Nablus, there are six militants linked to local armed groups, as well as civilians.

These types of operations have become almost daily since the end of March last year, when Israel launched the so-called “Breaking the Wave” operation in response to a series of deadly attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict lives a new peak of violencewhich alone so far this year has left 11 dead on the Israeli side and has cost the lives of 60 Palestinians, the “highest” number in occupied territory since 2000, according to the PNA Ministry of Health.

With information from agencies.

ES

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