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Israel Again Pounds Gaza Blaming Hamas for Rockets
“In response to the attack, the Israeli air force struck Hamas terrorist infrastructure sites in the northern Gaza Strip”, the Israeli military press service said.
On Sunday evening two rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel, with one exploding on the Gazan side of the border.
Hamas confirmed for the first time on August 13 that it has conducted a meeting with Blair to stabilise the ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
A few minutes later, rocket sirens were sounded in the Nahal Oz and Alumim communities.
“The IDF won’t endure such assaults from fear associations on Israeli region and it will keep on acting solidly against any endeavor to rupture the calm in the groups in the South”, an IDF proclamation read. The second rocket exploded in an open area of the Eshkol Regional Council, causing no injuries or damages, local media reported.
Security forces were searching the area for a possible site of impact.
Israel retaliated to a rocket attack whose responsibility was claimed by an Islamic State group afficiliate in Gaza.
On September 30, Israeli warplanes hit four training camps of Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave that was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system.
The news comes amid and the West Bank after Israeli troops entered the holy Muslim site of al-Aqsa mosque in the Palestinian East Jerusalem.
Israeli authorities on Friday closed the Gaza Strip’s only functioning commercial border crossing, the Kerem Abu Saalem terminal (Kerem Shalom in Hebrew), for the Jewish Sukkot holiday.
