Israeli army and Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip They resumed the exchange of fire this Friday, with Israeli bombing and rocket fire on the Jerusalem area, after a peaceful night, amid an escalation that has left 32 dead since Tuesday, 31 in the enclave.
“This morning is a Israeli forces attacked areas (in the Gaza Strip) by plane from which rockets were attempted to be launched into Israeli territory,” an army spokesman told EFE, which shortly afterwards reported a second bombing of “an Islamic Jihad target”.
Sources in the coastal enclave confirmed the Israeli attack on Deir Al Ballaha city in the south of the Strip bordering the Mediterranean.
On the Israeli side, sirens sounded after 11:00 a.m. local time (08:00 GMT) in cities Netiv HaAssara, Sdeh AvrahamHolit, Nir Itzhak, Sufa and Yehuda, all near the border with Gaza, and their residents took refuge in bunkers.
Shortly after the warnings were sounded population such as Beit Shemesh or the Jewish settlement of Gush Etzion -on the occupied West Bank-, near Jerusalem, in the center of Israel.
Until this morning, Palestinian militias They fired 866 missiles in this escalation, which today enters the fourth day of fire, of which 672 crossed into Israeli territory, according to the military.
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahuhe is meeting with his security cabinet for a “new assessment”, his spokesman said.
This exchange of fire takes place after nightfall absolute peaceafter an intense exchange of fire throughout the day on Thursday.
The day ended with Israeli shelling shortly before midnight (20:50 GMT) on Gaza stripfrom where Palestinian militias, this time led by the JIP, stopped firing rockets at around 22:00 (19:00 GMT).
Rumors of a brokered ceasefire Egypt, the UN and Qatarhave been circulating since yesterday, but both sides in the conflict insist that negotiations have become “very difficult”, apparently because of Israel’s refusal to stop the killings of senior YIP commanders, it is believed terrorist by Israel, the USA and the European Union.
This war escalation began on Tuesday, when Israel activated the operation “shield and arrow“with the targeted killing of three JIP leaders – Jalil Bahitini, Tareq Az Aldin and Jahed Ahnam – in an intense shelling that lasted for three days, also yesterday Ali Ghali and Ahmad Abu Daqqacommander and deputy commander of the group’s missile unit.
A total of 31 people died Gaza stripof which at least 15 were civilians, including 6 children, and 106 were injured, according to the Ministry of Health of the enclave, home to 2.5 million people under a military blockade by Israel since 2007 and governed by the Islamist movement Hamas.
On the Israeli side, one person was killed and five were injured on Thursday in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, when a rocket hit a residential building. During the three days of climbing, several people were injured or had a nervous breakdown Israel.
Source: Panama America
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