(Gaza) The Israeli army shelled Hamas positions in the southern Gaza Strip overnight from Saturday to Sunday after rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, security sources and the Israeli army said.
The Israeli army said in a brief message to the press “are carrying out strikes against terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip”, Palestinian territory under the control of the armed Islamist movement Hamas.
“Israeli warplanes target al-Qassam brigade site [branche armée du Hamas] west of Khan Younès ”, a city in the south of the Gaza Strip, said Palestinian security sources, also reporting artillery fire on an observation base of the Islamist movement in the north of the enclave.
On Saturday morning, two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip fell in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv. The alarm sirens had not been triggered and the rocket interception system had not been activated, the IDF said in a statement.
Sworn enemies Israel and Hamas fought an eleven-day war in May 2021, their fourth since the armed Islamist movement seized power in Gaza.
Since the entry into force of a fragile ceasefire, five projectiles (rockets or shells) have so far been fired from Gaza into Israeli territory, the lowest number in the six months following a war in Israel. / Hamas, according to the army’s annual report released on December 29