Fears of rapid escalation of hostilities after new ceasefire talks collapse – One injured in attack
Big rocket attack received on Saturday night Tel Aviv, with the IDF anti-missile system Iron Dome (“Iron Dome”) to be activated, as reported by SKAI envoy Stavros Ioannidis. The fears for a rapid escalation of hostilities after the collapse of negotiations for a new truce they intensify.
Footage shows several Iron Dome interceptions following a rocket barrage from the Gaza Strip in central Israel. (Video: Eli Gershzon) pic.twitter.com/lsMLjj0tdw
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The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigadesissued a statement saying they had bombarded Tel Aviv with a barrage of rockets in response to Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.
A 22-year-old injured from the Hamas attack in Holon, a suburb of Tel Aviv, has been reported so far.
Hamas terrorists fire rockets to Tel Aviv area
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One from Hamas leaders, Saleh Al-Arouri, said this Saturday, speaking to the Al Jazeera network, that he did notthere are to be new exchanges of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners without a full ceasefire and the release of all Palestinian prisoners.
Al-Aruri made it clear that in order for the remaining Israeli hostages to be released there must first be a ceasefire from the Israeli side and let them all be freed the (in total thousands) Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons.
Israel threatens to extend the war in southern Gaza after the “wreck” with Hamas in talks in Qatar to extend the truce. The possibility of a ground attack on southern Gaza, which Israeli media characterize as expected, will be significant escalation war’s.
The Israeli Defense Minister Joab Gallant announced that the IDF was striking areas of Gaza “which they had not yet struck since the beginning of the war” warning senior Hamas commanders in the southern part of the Strip, the Times of Israel reports.
“In the last two days we have been operating in areas where we did not operate in the last month and this will intensify. This action will reach every region that is needed. Let’s go for the complete elimination of the Hamas organization”Gallant said, speaking to reservists near the Gaza border.
Source :Skai
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