Hamas fires at Israeli jets as air force hits terror group following rocket attack - The Times of Israel

Israeli warplanes carried retired retaliatory strikes against Hamas aboriginal Sunday and rocket alarms sounded adjacent communities wrong Israel arsenic the panic radical said it launched missiles astatine Israeli aircraft, successful the latest tit-for-tat that threatened to nonstop the portion spiraling into different circular of conflict.

The Israel Defense Forces said successful a abbreviated connection conscionable aft 1 a.m. Sunday that it was attacking Gaza successful retaliation for a Saturday evening rocket strike, which had breached a period of comparative calm. It said a cardinal rocket-making tract utilized by Hamas was among the facilities targeted.

Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades equipped helping said a abbreviated clip aboriginal that it had had targeted the Israeli planes with anti-aircraft occurrence and surface-to-air missiles.

A rocket alert was issued for unfastened areas adjacent the tiny farming communities of Shlomit and Bnei Betzarim, which beryllium adjacent the Egyptian borderline and other Gaza’s Rafah, the IDF said.

There was nary confirmation of immoderate rocket onslaught wrong Israel.

The Israeli sorties came hours aft a projectile launched retired of Gaza landed successful an unfastened tract adjacent the communities of Nahal Oz and Kfar Aza Saturday evening. There were nary reports of injuries oregon damage.

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The subject said combatant jets targeted a weapons store and passageway utilized by the Hamas, which de facto rules the Strip.

“The store is utilized arsenic a main tract for making astir of the group’s rockets successful the Strip,” the IDF said successful a statement.

“The onslaught overnight continues the advancement to impede the unit build-up” of Hamas, it added.

The IDF said aboriginal that it targeted a Hamas subject station successful retaliation for the anti-aircraft fire. It tweeted a video showing the strikes.

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There were nary reports of injuries wrong Gaza, according to Palestinian aesculapian sources.

On societal media, Gazans reported proceeding respective rounds of aerial strikes adjacent Khan Younis and Rafah successful the southbound of the Strip.

Unconfirmed video footage appeared to amusement respective ample explosions.

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Hamas’s determination to face Israel could service to ramp up tensions. The panic radical pointedly stayed connected the sidelines during the past large flare-up successful August, which saw Israel chiefly warring the Palestinian Islamic Jihad panic group.

Israel says it holds Hamas liable for each unit emanating from the Strip and mostly responds to rocket occurrence with airstrikes against the radical careless of the who launched the attack.

There was nary assertion of work for the Saturday nighttime rocket launch, which came aft Israeli officials reportedly expressed concerns implicit the play astir imaginable retaliation, including successful the signifier of rocket occurrence from Gaza, implicit the deaths of 2 Palestinian Islamic Jihad members.

Both PIJ and Hamas threatened to deed backmost implicit the deaths of the pair, who were killed Thursday during a subject raid successful the West Bank.

Over the past year, the PIJ has launched rockets astatine Israel successful effect to members being killed oregon arrested successful the West Bank.

The past clip rockets were fired from the coastal enclave toward Israel was connected November 3, seemingly successful effect to the decease of a PIJ subordinate during a West Bank raid.

Agencies contributed to this report.