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.
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A Sderot music festival attended by hundreds of Israelis was temporarily disrupted as people sought shelter, television footage showed.
The Palestinian ministry of health announced through one of their social media accounts that more than 5 people, among them a 17 year old Palestinian received wounds during IDF’s strikes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Later on August 21, two more Palestinians were wounded by further Israeli strikes in the area, Qudra added.
The Israeli military said in a statement that a rocket hit the southern city of Sderot from the Palestinian territory.
“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.
The report quoted local sources as saying that Israeli tanks fired three shells at an agricultural land in the al-Masriyyin neighborhood in Beit Hanoun.
Relations between the former allies imploded in 2010 following an Israeli naval raid on a Turkish aid ship trying to breach Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Palestinian security sources in the territory said several targets in northen Gaza were struck by Israeli fire, and that a reservoir in Beit Hanun was destroyed.
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.
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Israel’s response to the rocket fire yesterday was a tad unusual as 50 Hamas targets were bombed by the IAF during the 2-hour attack. There were no casualties in either incident.
