TEL AVIV, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Sirens sounded in and around the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Friday as Hamas announced it had fired rockets into Israel in response, the Islamist group said, to rising deaths in civilians in Gaza.
Medical services reported that two women were victims of shrapnel in the salvo, which follows a relative lull in rocket fire as Israeli forces step up their ground offensive in Gaza in the fifth week of conflict.
Some 9,500 missiles, rockets and drones have been fired into Israel from Gaza since October 7, the Israeli army announced, adding that 2,000 shots were neutralized by their air defense systems.
Nearly 12% of rockets fired by Hamas, mostly domestically manufactured, failed on Palestinian territory, the Israeli army announced.
“With the arrival of (Israeli) ground forces on the ground, there was a drastic drop in the number of shots fired,” the army said. (Reporting Dan Williams; French version Zhifan Liu, editing by Kate Entringer)
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