B’chasdei Hashem there were no fatalities or injuries in the attack as a rocket landed between two homes.
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“We conducted strikes against several dozen targets in the Gaza Strip”, an army spokeswoman told the AFP news agency on Monday.
The strikes, numbering about 50, on Sunday night came in the wake of a rocket attack from Gaza earlier in the day on the southern Israeli city of Sderot, which struck a residential neighborhood near the city’s train station and Sapir College.
“One of them is a 20-year-old [man] who was hit by shrapnel in the face”, said Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Palestinian health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
“Israeli new ultra-right Minister of Defense, Avigdor Lieberman, is flexing his muscles at the expense of Gaza’s residents”, Elizabeth Tsurkov, Research Fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking, said in a tweet commenting on the recent airstrikes.
“We will not keep silent in light of Turkey’s baseless denunciation of us”, the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
There was no immediate Palestinian claim of responsibility for Sunday s attack on Sderot.
Just a few hour after the Hamas rocket fire into Israel, the organization’s military wing staged a parade in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip during which they presented rockets produced by the group and bragged about terrorists from the commando unit. “Israel will continue to defend its civilians from all rocket fire on our territory, in accordance with worldwide law and our conscience”.
Palestinian medical officials said four people were wounded in the strikes, launched after a rocket was sacked from Gaza into the town of Sderot without causing any casualties. This evening, the Israeli Foreign Ministry published a firm response to the Turkish condemnation, stating that “the normalization of relations with Turkey does not mean that we will remain silent in the face of unfounded condemnation directed at us”. The attack caused no casualties.
A 10th died after years in a coma.
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The Turkish parliament formally ratified it late on Friday, after a delay caused by the attempted coup.
