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Israeli Jets Attack Gaza after Rocket Launch


Wed 16 Sep 2020 | 01:45 PM
Omnia Ahmed

Israeli jets attacked Gaza, on Wednesday, while warning sirens sounded in southern Israel to stop launching rockets from the Palestinian territories, according to witnesses.

Witnesses reported that a training base run by HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement), which controls the Gaza strip, was targeted in the airstrike.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which did not confirm the attack, said that sirens sounded in Israeli assemblies close to Gaza.

Coinciding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's signing of normalization deals with the UAE and Bahrain in Washington, two rockets were said to be fired from the Gaza Strip, wounding at least two people on Tuesday evening in Israel.

The IDF said  two rockets were fired at Israel, one of which was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system.

"The other fell in  Ashdod slightly wounding at least two people," the military said.

Nevertheless, none of the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip has claimed any responsibility for the two rockets.

In August, Hamas intensified its launch of incendiary balloons and air jets towards Israel. On the other hand, the Jewish state specifically responded with night airstrikes on military targets belonging to Hamas.

However, at the beginning of September, the two parties reached an agreement, interceded by Qatar, to revive the fragile truce that has been going on for more than a year.

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority both condemned the peace agreements related to Israel, the UAE and Bahrain.