Israel has bombarded the Gaza Strip this morning in retaliation for several rockets launched from the coastal enclave, reports the Israeli Army, which claims to have "significantly" damaged Hamas war facilities, amid an upsurge in violence in the Palestinian conflict. Israeli.
"In response to the firing of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel today, Israel Defense Forces warplanes attacked a site for the production, preservation and storage of chemical raw materials used for the production of rockets belonging to to the Hamas terrorist organization," says an army spokesman.
Israel has also bombed "a weapons manufacturing site", which "significantly damaged the capabilities" of Hamas, the de facto Islamist movement in Gaza since 2007, and its ability to "continue acquiring weapons", adds the same source. .
Israel's shelling took place in the center of the Gaza Strip, whose inhabitants heard several explosions, in addition to the deafening drone of warplanes. Hamas's military wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, claims in a statement that its fighters fired anti-aircraft munitions at Israeli warplanes.
Meanwhile, the launch of rockets from Gaza, which began on Wednesday night and continued into the early hours of Thursday, sounded the anti-aircraft alarms in Sderot and other Israeli towns near the coastal enclave, but all the projectiles were intercepted by the Israel air defense system.
So far no fatalities or serious injuries have been reported on either side.
The last time Israel was targeted by rockets from Gaza was early Friday morning, to which it also responded with shelling of Hamas facilities. This war escalation occurs in the midst of an upsurge in violence that has left more than 20 dead in the last week.
Last Thursday, a military raid in the occupied West Bank left ten Palestinians dead by Israeli fire. The next day, a series of four Palestinian armed attacks began, one of which left seven civilians dead on the Israeli side in a Jewish settlement in occupied East Jerusalem.
This attack was celebrated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. It was also celebrated by Palestinian prisoners who are in Israeli jails, for which they were punished with total isolation and other measures. Several Palestinian militias have pointed out that the rockets fired at Israel since yesterday are in retaliation for the punishments against Palestinian prisoners, especially women prisoners.
For its part, Israel said Thursday that it considers Hamas "responsible for all terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip and will face the consequences of violations of Israeli security." A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Palestinian Prisoners told EFE on Wednesday that the Palestinian inmates have been sanctioned with total isolation, a ban on receiving visits and using the public telephone, as part of the repressive policy of the Israeli Minister of National Security, the extremist anti-Arab Itamar Ben Gvir.
During the month of January, 35 Palestinians died in the conflict and seven died on the Israeli side, after the area experienced its deadliest year in 2022 since 2006, after the end of the Second Intifada.
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