JERUSALEM, Apr 25 (NNN-WAFA) – Israeli military said yesterday that, it struck military sites in the Gaza Strip, after rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave into southern Israel, over the past two days.
On Friday night, amid recent tensions between Palestinians and the Israeli police in east Jerusalem, militants in Gaza fired three rockets towards southern Israel. Overnight, Israel retaliated with airstrikes on sites belonging to Hamas.
“Fighter jets and attack helicopters struck a number of Hamas military targets in the Gaza Strip, including an underground infrastructure and rocket launchers belonging to Hamas,” an Israeli military spokesperson said, in a statement.
Between Friday night and early yesterday, rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. Israel’s Iron Dome Aerial Defence System intercepted six of the rockets, while the other rockets fell near the fence separating Gaza and Israel or in open fields in Israel, without causing any damage or injury.
The violence was the worst flare-up in the region in months.
The rockets were not fired by Hamas, but by two smaller groups in Gaza, one affiliated with the Fatah and the other with the Popular Front, which are both Palestinian parties.
The groups assumed responsibility for the strikes and said, it was a retaliation to tensions in east Jerusalem, where violent clashes erupted on Thursday night, with scores of Palestinians injured and arrested.– NNN-WAFA
