The fresh exchanges of fire follow Benjamin Netanyahu’s electoral victory in Israel’s parliamentary elections held on Tuesday and the Israeli raid on Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups in the occupied West Bank, against a senior official of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, the second most powerful Palestinian Islamist group. faction after Hamas, which exercises power in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Air Force said it launched airstrikes against “military installations” in the Gaza Strip early today, hours after rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave into Israeli territory.
Last night, the Israeli army and local sources spoke of the first rocket launches since August from the Gaza Strip, some of which fell inside the densely populated Palestinian enclave and another was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.
THEi new exchanges of fire follow the electoral victory of Benjamin Netanyahu in the parliamentary elections held on Tuesday in Israel and the Israeli raid on Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed organizations in the occupied West Bank, against a leading figure of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, the second most powerful Palestinian Islamist faction after Hamas, which exercises power in the Gaza Strip.
Following the rocket launches, aircraft “targeted an underground military rocket manufacturing facility” belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Twitter.
Sources close to the security forces in Gaza for their part spoke of approx ten strikes against two “military installations” in the central part of the enclave of 2.3 million inhabitants.
At least 49 Palestinians, militants and civilians, including children, died from August 5 to 7 in hostilities between the Israeli army and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization in the Gaza Strip, an enclave that has been under Israeli blockade since 2007 and remains separated, geographically and politically, from the West Bank.
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