Ignition scene in the Middle East, overnight strikes with at least twenty dead in the Gaza Strip

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have reached the red in recent days, and in Gaza Strip The night turned into day with rocket fire from the Palestinian side and deadly retaliation from the Israeli army. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least twenty people lost their lives, among them nine children.

The Israeli army announced in the early hours of today that rockets continued to be fired overnight by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip against the southern part of the country.

“Since 18:00 (Monday yesterday), terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip have been firing rockets at Israeli civilians. Non-stop. The time now is 04:00 PM. “Rocket attacks are taking place for 10 hours,” the Israeli staff said via Twitter earlier today.

Just before midnight, the Israeli army was counting 150 rocket attacks. Dozens of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, he assured.

The Israeli retaliation was extremely deadly, as reported by AMPE. At least 20 Palestinians have been killed in strikes in the Gaza Strip. among them nine children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Jerusalem Post reported that eight Hamas members were dead.

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have plummeted in recent days. At the weekend, hundreds of people – at least 610, according to a representative of the Palestinian Red Crescent quoted by the Al-Quds newspaper – were injured in incidents in Jerusalem, in a location considered sacred by the faithful of three religions, the Temple Mount, as the Jews call it, or the Noble Sanctuary, as the Muslims call it.

According to the Jerusalem Post, a spokesman for Hamas threatened around midnight that the organization’s armed wing would launch large-scale attacks if Israeli police forces did not leave the sanctuary within two hours.

After the deadline set in the ultimatum expired, a Hamas spokesman said the plan was canceled because Israel backed down. However, so far there has been no confirmation that forces, police or others, have withdrawn from this area of ​​Jerusalem.

According to a Palestinian radio network, Israeli airstrikes continued overnight in several cities in the Gaza Strip.

The cities of Deir al-Bala and Khan Yunis have been hit repeatedly, as has Jabalya.

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