The militants have fired a minimum of eight missiles on the Israeli metropolis, which reportedly did minor injury
The Palestinian militant group Hamas stated on Sunday that it had fired rockets at Tel Aviv, its first such assault on the Israeli metropolis in practically 4 months.
The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) confirmed the incident, sharing footage of the missiles. The army stated it intercepted a number of of the eight incoming projectiles with out giving a precise quantity.
“A barrage of rockets was launched from Rafah towards central Israel moments in the past. Humanitarian support has been going into Gaza by means of the Kerem Shalom Crossing this morning, and now rockets are being fired at central Israel. That is what it regarded like from the Rafah Crossing,” the IDF said on X.
Footage circulating on-line signifies that the assault inflicted solely minor injury on the bottom within the Tel Aviv space; a minimum of one residential dwelling was hit by particles and a big crater was left in an open space. There have been no rapid reviews of accidents.
The missiles are stated to have been launched from the Rafah space of Gaza, located close to the Palestinian enclave’s border with Egypt, the place the IDF has been conducting a serious army operation in opposition to Hamas.
The Palestinian group’s army wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed accountability for the assault moments after the barrage, stating the launch got here “in response to the Zionist massacres in opposition to civilians” in Gaza.
The continuing Israeli offensive in opposition to Rafah, a densely populated metropolis in southern Gaza which has swelled as a result of an inflow of greater than 1 million refugees from different components of the Palestinian enclave, has garnered widespread worldwide condemnation. Regardless of repeated warnings to not invade from the worldwide neighborhood, together with Washington, Israel stormed the area on Could 7, promptly severing the enclave’s land entry to Egypt by capturing the Rafah border crossing.
Earlier this week, the United Nations’ high judicial physique, the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ), ordered Israel to instantly halt its operation in Rafah. The court docket stated it was “not satisfied that the evacuation efforts and the associated measures that Israel affirms to have undertaken” had been adequate to “alleviate the immense threat” to civilians. Whereas the ICJ’s rulings are each binding and remaining, the physique has no precise means to implement them.
The battle between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, when the Gaza-based group launched a shock raid into the south of the nation, killing over 1,000 folks and taking roughly 250 hostages. Greater than 35,000 Palestinians, principally girls and kids, have been killed to this point amid the IDF operation to destroy the militants, in accordance with the enclave’s well being authorities.
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