Early On tuesday, Israel initiated its first missile attacks on the Gaza Strip in months in reaction to a missile launched from the Palestinian colony, as tempers rise going to follow a weekend of violence near a Jerusalem holy site. Warning sirens wailed in southern Israel Monday night after a rocket was fired from the Hamas-controlled enclave, the first such event occurred since early January.
The Israeli military announced “One rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. The rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome Air Defense System,”
In reply, the Israeli air force claimed to have attacked a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility.
According to witnesses and security sources in Gaza, Hamas claimed to have deployed its “anti-aircraft defence” to repel the air attacks, which resulted in no injuries.
The missile was launched following a spate of attacks in Israel and a weekend of tensions at a holy site in Jerusalem, but no faction in the congested enclave of 2.3 million residents quickly claimed credit.
Israel considers Hamas accountable for all missile shooting from the country and frequently responds with air strikes.
The event, which is the first of its sort since January, follows a weekend of Israeli-Palestinian violence in and around Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which left more than 170 people injured, the most of them were Palestinian protestors.
According to diplomatic sources, the United Nations Security Council will meet on Tuesday to consider the recent uptick in violence.
Israel considers Hamas accountable for all missile shooting from the country and frequently responds with air strikes.
The event, which is the first of its sort since January, follows a weekend of Israeli-Palestinian violence in and around Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which left more than 170 people injured, the most of them were Palestinian protestors.
According to diplomatic sources, the United Nations Security Council will meet on Tuesday to consider the recent uptick in violence.
Last year, at the same time, similar unrest in Jerusalem prompted Hamas rocket firing into Israel, which developed into an 11-day conflict.
