Israeli military answers with airstrikes in Gaza

“The attack took place in response to… rocket attacks on the State of Israel earlier this evening, which was intercepted by an Iron Dome battery”, IDF said in the statement released on 30 September.

Witnesses and Palestinian security sources said four training camps for Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, were hit in the raids.

“#Gaza terrorist launched a rocket at southern Israel”.

While the political instability in the West Bank and Gaza also has significantly damaged prospects for private investment there, the report lists several immediate actions that would improve the wellbeing of Palestinians.

Sources in Gaza told the Times of Israel the rocket was shot from the center of Gaza. Hadeel al-Hashlamon, 18, was shot dead last Tuesday as the IDF said that she attempted to stab an Israeli soldier. The report said that the Israeli measures to let more goods leave Gaza, though welcome, are not enough: “Only six percent of what left Gaza prior to the blockade is now being allowed out”, said the report.

The red alert sirens were the first to go off in Ashdod, a few 40 kilometers from the Strip, since last summer’s war.

Israel has faced sporadic rocket fire out of the Strip since reaching a ceasefire with Hamas-led fighters from the Palestinian enclave in August 2014, ending the 50-day war.

The regime’s military blamed the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas for the rocket attack, but according to Israeli daily Haaretz, a Daesh-affiliated group, called the Omar Hadid Brigade, claimed the responsibility for the rocket fire.

Israeli forces continued their attacks on the Syrian military for a second day, confirming attacks on two more army posts and claiming a single mortar shell fired by an unknown faction, which strayed into the Israeli-occupied Golan, as the pretext for the continued strikes.

In recent weeks, there have been clashes at the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem.