Israel’s military launched air attacks on Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip targeting a rocket manufacturing facility and a military post for Hamas, a day after rockets fired from Gaza landed in the Mediterranean Sea, said Israeli military.
“As fireworks lit up the skies to celebrate NewYear2022 around the world, a different type of fire came from Gaza-terrorist rocket-fire toward Israel,” the Israel military said in a tweet on Sunday, as they added “in response, we just struck Hamas sites in Gaza, incl. a rocket manufacturing site & military posts used for terrorist activity.”
However, it was not clear whether the rockets from Gaza on Saturday were meant to hit Israel, but Gaza-based groups often test-fire missiles towards the sea.
Hamas said that some of the areas targeted by the Israel strikes include agricultural lands.
The resistance group stressed that it will continue to perform its duty to defend Palestinian people and liberate their land and sanctities.
No casualties from Saturday’s attack were reported, and no sirens were sounded and Israel’s Iron Dome rocket interception system did not deploy, the army said in a statement.
Apart from a single incident in September, there has been no cross-border rocket fire since a ceasefire ended an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in May after Egypt’s mediation.
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has been fragile for decades, as Israel did not take serious steps to ease the blockade it imposed on Gaza with Egypt’s help when the group seized control of the coastal enclave in 2007.
More than 260 Palestinians, many of them civilians and children, and 13 Israelis were killed in the May assault on Gaza, during which Israel carried out dozens of air raids across the coastal enclave, prompting Gaza fighters to fire rockets towards Israeli cities.
Israel keeps Gaza under blockade, tightly restricting movement of people and goods in and out of the territory, ravaging Gaza’s economy and harming its population of two million. Egypt also maintains restrictions on the enclave.
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