Israeli strikes on Gaza after a rocket shot

The latest Israeli rockets and strikes on Gaza date back last April.

Le Monde with AFP

The Israeli army led, Saturday, June 18, strikes on positions of the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in response to a rocket shot launched from this territory which was intercepted, according to a military press release .

Before dawn, “the Islamist movement Hamas pulled a rocket from the Gaza Strip to Israeli citizens in southern Israel”. The arugula was intercepted by the anti -missile shield, underlines the text.

In retaliation, the army has led a series of strikes on Hamas positions in the Palestinian enclave, subject to an Israeli blockade for more than fifteen years. “Aircraft have targeted a Hamas weapons manufacturing site as well as three Hamas military posts,” said the army in the press release.

The latest Israeli rockets and strikes on Gaza date back last April.

Friday, three armed Palestinians, including a commander of Hamas, were killed during the exchange of fire with the Israeli forces, who led an operation in the Jénine, in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel for more fifty years. Hamas said that one of the three dead was a local commander of the Islamist movement and that his death “will not remain prune”.

/Media reports.