Israel continues to bomb Gaza for to days as truce falters

Smoke and flames are seen after an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip, June 17, 2021. ©Reuters / Mohammed Salem

Israel-Hamas-controlled Gaza renewed its hostilities, with Tel Aviv shooting rockets into the territory in response to so-called sound balls as tensions sparked under the new Israel government.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed that they had hit a Hamas-run 'military installation,' a missile launch facility. Thursday night the strikes took place in response to fireballs fired from Gaza, IDF stated.

These missiles have reportedly struck the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis and the village of Beit Lahia north of Gaza City. This target has been Israeli raids for the second day in a row.

Eight fires were reported by the Israeli press on Thursday, including seven in the region of Eshkol and one in the area near Shaar Hanegeva.

Shortly after Israel struck the suspected locations of Hamas, Kfar Aza kibbutz in the south of Israel was blasted by sirens indicating that "income fire, not cockets, triggers alarms" from the IDF.

CCTV footage seems to show a dam of machine-gun fire to the community as soon as possible.

Early this week a contentious flag March was launched across Jerusalem to commemorate Tel-triumph Aviv's in the Six-Day War of 1967 when it took East Jerusalem. It was the Israeli nationalist groups. The event was first set for May when tensions gave way to struggles in Gaza on the back of an 11-day Ramadan break. Although the march was finally redirected in a bid to prevent confrontations, skirmish events broke out in Jerusalem and elsewhere, causing many injuries and arrests of more than a dozen Palestinians.

On the heels of a bloodstained conflict that killed more than 250 Palestinians and 13 Israel, the strikes on Thursday mark the second flare-up since the previous Israel/Gaza ceasefire agreed by Egypt last month. It was also the first military action to take the rein of long-term PM Benjamin Netanyahu under the new government of an Israeli coalition, on Sunday.

Publish : 2021-06-18 13:05:00

Give Your Comments