One of the attack responses came from an Israel Air Force plane and the second from a tank, according to the IDF.
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Israel war jets carried out on Sunday night a series of intensive airstrikes on militant posts in the northern Gaza Strip, after four rockets were launched towards Israeli southern communities.
Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday, shortly after a rocket was sacked into southern Israel.
The Israeli army has fired missiles into the northern Gaza Strip, after a rocket was sacked from the Palestinian territory into southern Israel causing no injuries or damage.
Palestinian sources also said Israeli tanks positioned on the border between the northeast Gaza Strip and Israel fired nine shells at the area of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
The IDF responded by targeting what an official described as Hamas “infrastructure”, with multiple airstrikes hitting around 30 sites in Gaza belonging to Hamas and other military groups.
Think others should know about this? 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”.
Earlier on Sunday, Hamas held an anti-Israel military parade through the streets of Rafah in southern Gaza. Meanwhile, a senior United Nations official on Saturday expressed a deep concern about the deteriorating health of a Palestinian detainee on hunger strike for more than two months in protest of his detention after completing a 14.5-year prison sentence.
Turkey and Israel were formerly close regional allies, but fell out in 2010 when Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish activists in a raid on a flotilla seeking to run the blockade.
In June 2016 the two countries reached agreement on restoring ties and Israel s security cabinet approved the deal.
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“When terrorists in Hamas’ Gaza Strip, driven by a radical agenda based on hatred, attack people in the middle of the summer vacation, their intentions are clear – to inflict pain, cause fear and to terrorize”, Lerner said.
