Nearly 1,500 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into various Israeli cities since the military escalation between Hamas and Israel began on Monday evening, the army said on the night of Wednesday May 12 to Thursday May 13. Israeli. However, at the start of the day, the Israeli military had spoken of about 1,000 rockets being launched.
According to the army, the launch of 350 rockets has ” failed “ and “Hundreds” others were intercepted by the “Iron Dome” missile shield.
The north of the country on alert
For the first time since the start of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the Israeli army on Thursday announced a rocket alert in the north of the country. So far, projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip by Hamas had set off alarm sirens in southern and central Israel, but not in the north.
Early Thursday morning, sirens sounded again in metropolitan Tel Aviv, where residents rushed to shelters, but also in the Jezreel Valley, located in the Galilee (north) of the country.
Third Palestinian killed in West Bank on Wednesday
A Palestinian was “Neutralized” during a confrontation with the Israeli army near the city of Nablus, a large city in the north of the West Bank. The“Attack” also left two injured, according to the Israeli military. That brings the death toll to three in Wednesday’s clashes between Palestinians and Israeli military forces in the occupied West Bank.
Earlier in the day, a 16-year-old Rachid Abouara was killed by gunshots to the head and chest in the village of Aqaba, north of the city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian health ministry. And Hussein al-Titi, a 26-year-old Palestinian, was killed in clashes with the Israeli army in the Al-Fawwar refugee camp near the Palestinian city of Hebron.
The Israeli army said the events took place during a “Operational activity”, when “A violent riot has been started”, during which the soldiers have “Spotted one of the demonstrators who were about to launch a block on the troops from a roof”. “The soldiers reacted by opening fire”, according to an army statement.
According to the latest report from the Minister of Health in the Gaza Strip, the clashes of the past few days have left 67 dead and 388 injured in this impoverished Palestinian territory of two million inhabitants.