Israel carried out air strikes on the central Gaza Strip early Thursday, in keeping with AFP journalists and witnesses, hours after intercepting a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory.
New rounds of rockets had been fired from Gaza after these strikes, and contemporary explosions might be heard from Gaza City at round 3:15 am (0115 GMT).
In a press release issued at 02:41 (0041 GMT), the Israeli military confirmed it was “striking in the Gaza Strip”.
According to native safety sources and witnesses, the primary strikes — at the very least seven — hit a coaching middle of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist motion Hamas. The middle is positioned within the Al-Maghazi refugee camp within the central Gaza Strip.
A second spherical of air strikes by the Israeli military focused the al-Qassam Brigades’ coaching middle southwest of Gaza City, in keeping with native safety sources.
After the primary air strike, an AFP reporter noticed two extra rockets fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip, and witnesses mentioned a number of extra rockets had been fired from varied areas.
Gaza, densely populated with 2.3 million individuals, has been underneath an Israeli blockade since Hamas took energy in 2007.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular Palestinian armed group, claimed to have carried out “a barrage of rockets… in response to the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip”.
On the Israeli aspect, warning sirens sounded in Sderot, a city in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip, in keeping with the military. —Agence France-Presse
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
