JERUSALEM, 20 April 2022, (TON): Israel carried out its first air strikes on the Gaza Strip in months in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions soar after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy site.
Warning sirens sounded in southern Israel night after the rocket was fired from the enclave controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, the first such incident since early January.
The projectile crashed into the sea off Tel Aviv.
The Israeli military said in a statement “one rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. The rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome Air Defense System.”
Hours later the Israeli air force said it had hit a Hamas weapons manufacturing site in retaliation.
According to witnesses and security sources in Gaza “Hamas claimed to have used its anti-aircraft defence to counter the air raids, which caused no casualties.”
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