The Israeli military carried out airstrikes against “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip, in response to Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel, the second in two days, it announced in Saturday. a statement.
The aviation hit a “training camp, an anti-aircraft missile launch station, a concrete production plant as well as the infrastructure of a terrorist tunnel,” the same source said.
Security sources and witnesses said the strikes hit two “training sites” in the southern Gaza Strip and another target in the center of that region.
The rocket fired a few hours earlier towards southern Israel fell in “Israeli territory, but in an uninhabited area,” the army added, without claiming any casualties or damage.
This shot has not been claimed so far.
The same scenario had unfolded the day before: the Israeli army had announced that it had carried out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip following a rocket fire, incidents which caused no casualties.
Despite the Israeli strikes “Gaza is still struggling and not breaking up”, reacted Saturday morning a spokesman for Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007.
An enclave of two million inhabitants, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to an Israeli blockade since that date.
Hamas and Israel fought three wars between 2008 and 2014.
Since then, rocket and incendiary balloon fire from Gaza and Israeli retaliatory strikes against Hamas or Islamic Jihad, the second armed Islamist group in the Palestinian enclave, have taken place sporadically.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the deployment of the Israeli anti-missile system “Iron Dome” which intercepted hundreds of rockets launched from Gaza or Syria.
The poverty rate in Gaza is over 50%. Living conditions have deteriorated further with the establishment of containment to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
