The Israeli army has carried out dozens of air and tank strikes across northern Gaza, injuring at least four Palestinians, in response to a rocket launched from the Palestinian territory into Israel.
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“One of them is a 20-year-old (young man) who was hit by shrapnel in the face”, said Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Palestinian health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza. Palestinian reports also indicated that the earlier Israeli air strike hit a Hamas lookout point, and that an Israeli tank shell damaged a Beit Hanoun water tower.
“We will continue to protect innocent Israeli citizens from the firing of rockets into our territory according to worldwide law and in accordance with our responsibility and conscience”, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s response read.
Palestinian fighters of Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, display Qassam home-made rockets.. “It has been learned that Israeli military forces have attacked many points in the Gaza strip on grounds of retaliation to a rocket launched from the Gaza strip on to Israel”.
Television footage showed that a music festival, which was attended by hundreds of Israelis, got disrupted after the attack by the militants.No group has claimed responsibility for the rockets fired into the Israeli town of Sderot.
Israel says the Gaza blockade is needed to curb arms smuggling by Hamas, an Islamist group that last fought a war with Israel in 2014.
The Israeli military emphasized that Israel is holding Hamas responsible for every act of aggression issuing from the coastal enclave.
A rocket fired from Gaza landed in the southern Israeli city of Sderot.
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