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Gaza: Israel responds to rocket fire, hits 130 military targets

We are ready for an escalation. The Israeli army said Tuesday, May 11, 2021 that it had killed 15 members of Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip, where it carried out 130 strikes in response to rocket attacks on the Jewish state. “We hit 130 military targets which belong mainly to Hamas,” army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters. And to continue: “According to our current estimates, we killed 15 members of Hamas and Islamic jihad. ”

The rocket salutes fired from the Gaza Strip constitute “a serious aggression against Israel, to which we cannot fail to respond,” he added. Local authorities in Gaza have reported twenty-two dead, including nine children, in the Israeli strikes, the largest since November 2019. In Israel, Israeli rescuers reported several injuries after rockets were fired. According to a latest army report, 200 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel since Monday, more than 90% of which have been intercepted by the “Iron Dome” missile shield. Many more rockets fell inside the Gaza Strip, territory controlled by Hamas.

More than 500 injured

The new strikes and bursts of rockets come against a backdrop of violence in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian part of the city illegally occupied and annexed by Israel, according to international law. On Monday, some 520 Palestinians and 32 Israeli policemen were injured in further clashes with Israeli police on the Mosques Esplanade, Islam’s third holiest site and Judaism’s holiest site, and other locations in Jerusalem. -Is.

Hamas had threatened the Jewish state with a further military escalation if its forces did not withdraw by 6 p.m. (3 p.m. GMT) from the plaza. The violence coincided with “Jerusalem Day”, which marks, according to the Hebrew calendar, the capture of the eastern part, populated by Palestinians, of the Holy City by the Israeli army in 1967. It also comes after weeks of tensions in Jerusalem.


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