2023-10-07 07:42:00
On Saturday morning, warning sirens sounded in Jerusalem, where an AFP journalist was able to see two explosions in the sky, characteristic of an interception of rockets by Israeli air defense. Several hundred rockets have been fired since early morning from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, killing a woman in her sixties. The armed wing of Hamas announced that it had launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation against Israel.
Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, announced the death of a woman killed by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. This woman in her sixties was killed “by a direct hit”, and 15 other people were injured in southern Israel.
The Israeli army reported the infiltration of “an unknown number of terrorists” into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. “Residents of neighboring areas of the Gaza Strip have been asked to stay at home,” adds the army, while dozens of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel for more than an hour.
End of the truce
These shots put an end to a truce generally respected since the end of a five-day war in May, according to AFP journalists in Gaza. A rocket fell on the town of Yavne, south of Tel Aviv, where a man was slightly injured by shrapnel, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross.
In May, Israel launched an offensive against Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, triggering a five-day war between the Israeli army, Islamic Jihad and other armed groups in the territory that cost the lives of 34 Palestinians. and an Israeli.
More than a thousand rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, most of them intercepted by the Israeli air defense system. Israel, for its part, had increased airstrikes on the small territory. Hamas, which took power in Gaza in 2007, had stayed away from this conflict.
Neither Islamic Jihad, which recently celebrated its 36th anniversary, nor Hamas responded to AFP’s requests on Saturday morning.
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