“This isn’t the first time the house was hit but I’m not afraid, neither was I yesterday. “Luckily I have a safe room and I entered it immediately and closed the door. “All the shrapnel is in the room the house was shaken very powerfully, the glasses fell, the walls were damaged,” she told AFP.
Miriam Keren, 78, an Ashkelon resident, said a Gaza rocket had destroyed a workshop and damaged her house. “Israel assassinated a leader of (Islamic) Jihad at dawn today because it does not want calm.”Īcross southern Israel, sirens wailed intermittently through the night and this morning. In Gaza City’s Al-Rimal district, Mamoun Radi, 48, said: “We hope that the wave of escalation will end, but we support revenge for the martyrs.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said he had instructed the security establishment “to take all the measures necessary, to prepare additional actions and maintain readiness for the possibility of increased fire”. The militant group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said four of its fighters had been killed. The Israeli army said it had fired at 166 targets across Gaza today. Islamic Jihad confirmed it has lost five military leaders in strikes in recent days, including Ahmed Abu Deka – the deputy of Ali Ghali, commander of a rocket launch unit also killed by Israel today. Shops in Gaza were shuttered and the streets largely abandoned as Israeli military aircraft circled over the territory where several buildings lay in ruins. Militants in the Gaza Strip have fired 547 rockets at Israel since yesterday, the military said, adding that 175 had been intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock hosted her French and Jordanian counterpart for talks in Berlin and said “the bloodletting must end now”. “We urge an immediate comprehensive ceasefire which will end Israeli military operations in Gaza and current rocket firing against Israel, which is unacceptable,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement. Rocket fire from Gaza killed one person in the central Israeli city of Rehovot and injured at least two others, Israeli police said.Ĭairo mediated in efforts toward a truce between Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group, while the European Union called for an immediate ceasefire. ISRAEL AND GAZA militants traded more heavy fire on the third day of the worst escalation of violence in months that has killed 28 people in the blockaded Palestinian enclave and one in Israel.Īir strikes by the Israeli army since Tuesday have killed fighters as well as civilians, including several children, said officials in the crowded coastal territory.
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