GAZA / JERUSALEM: Israeli aircraft attack Gaza and the Palestinians fired rockets into the depths Israeli on Saturday, the day after an Israeli campaign against Islamic Jihad The militant group began a cross-border outbreak that ended more than a year of relative calm.
Islamic Jihad fired rockets at Israel’s Tel Aviv mall, after Israel killed one of the group’s senior commanders in a surprise daytime airstrike on a tower in Gaza City on Monday. Friday.
The military said Israel attacked additional Islamic Jihad fighters and weapons depots hidden in residential areas on Saturday. Bombs on at least five houses sent huge plumes of smoke and debris into the air, as explosions rocked Gaza and ambulances raced through the streets. Israeli air strikes have killed 15 Palestinians, including at least four other Islamic Jihad fighters and three civilians, among them a child, Palestinian Ministry of Health speak. It added more scores than was injured.
Palestinian militants fired at least 200 rockets at Israel – most of which were intercepted, setting off sirens for air strikes and sending civilians to bomb shelters. The Israeli Ambulance Service said there were no reports of serious casualties. Egypt said it had engaged in intensive talks to de-escalate the situation.
Further escalation will largely depend on whether Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza, chooses to join the fighting. An Egyptian intelligence mission led by Major General Ahmed Abdelkhaliq Two Egyptian security sources said they arrived in Israel on Saturday and will travel to Gaza for reconciliation talks. The sources added that they hope to be able to secure a one-day ceasefire in order to conduct negotiations. Islamic Jihad signals no imminent ceasefire. “Now is the time for resistance, not an armistice,” an official from the group told Reuters. The group has not said how many members have been killed since Friday.
Some 2.3 million Palestinians are concentrated on the narrow coastal Gaza Strip, while Israel and Egypt tightly restrict the movement of people and goods in and out of the surrounding area and impose a naval blockade. , citing security concerns.
Israel stopped a planned shipment of fuel into Gaza shortly before it happened on Friday, crippling the territory’s only power station and reducing power to about eight hours a day and issuing warnings from officials. health authorities that hospitals will be severely affected within the next few days.
The border has been mostly quiet since May 2021, when 11 days of fierce fighting between Israel and militants left at least 250 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel dead. Tensions increased this week after Israeli forces arrested a jihadist commander in the occupied West Bank, amid threats of retaliation from the group. The military said it arrested 19 more members of the group there on Saturday.
Islamic Jihad fired rockets at Israel’s Tel Aviv mall, after Israel killed one of the group’s senior commanders in a surprise daytime airstrike on a tower in Gaza City on Monday. Friday.
The military said Israel attacked additional Islamic Jihad fighters and weapons depots hidden in residential areas on Saturday. Bombs on at least five houses sent huge plumes of smoke and debris into the air, as explosions rocked Gaza and ambulances raced through the streets. Israeli air strikes have killed 15 Palestinians, including at least four other Islamic Jihad fighters and three civilians, among them a child, Palestinian Ministry of Health speak. It added more scores than was injured.
Palestinian militants fired at least 200 rockets at Israel – most of which were intercepted, setting off sirens for air strikes and sending civilians to bomb shelters. The Israeli Ambulance Service said there were no reports of serious casualties. Egypt said it had engaged in intensive talks to de-escalate the situation.
Further escalation will largely depend on whether Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza, chooses to join the fighting. An Egyptian intelligence mission led by Major General Ahmed Abdelkhaliq Two Egyptian security sources said they arrived in Israel on Saturday and will travel to Gaza for reconciliation talks. The sources added that they hope to be able to secure a one-day ceasefire in order to conduct negotiations. Islamic Jihad signals no imminent ceasefire. “Now is the time for resistance, not an armistice,” an official from the group told Reuters. The group has not said how many members have been killed since Friday.
Some 2.3 million Palestinians are concentrated on the narrow coastal Gaza Strip, while Israel and Egypt tightly restrict the movement of people and goods in and out of the surrounding area and impose a naval blockade. , citing security concerns.
Israel stopped a planned shipment of fuel into Gaza shortly before it happened on Friday, crippling the territory’s only power station and reducing power to about eight hours a day and issuing warnings from officials. health authorities that hospitals will be severely affected within the next few days.
The border has been mostly quiet since May 2021, when 11 days of fierce fighting between Israel and militants left at least 250 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel dead. Tensions increased this week after Israeli forces arrested a jihadist commander in the occupied West Bank, amid threats of retaliation from the group. The military said it arrested 19 more members of the group there on Saturday.
