Warning sirens resounded Sunday near Jerusalem for the first time in over a year, amid the ongoing armed escalation with the group Islamic Jihad on the Gaza Stripthe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced.
journalists from the AFP in jerusalem they heard brief explosions in the distance. In a short statement, the army indicated that the sirens sounded “in the sector around Jerusalem”, without further details.
Minutes later, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad claimed to have fired rockets at Jerusalem, shortly after the sirens went off.
“Recently, we have launched rockets towards Jerusalem,” the Al-Qods brigades announced in a statement. It is the first time projectiles have been fired at Jerusalem since the start of the ongoing armed escalation with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
As reported Jerusalem PostAs of Sunday morning, between 450 and 470 of the rockets fired from the Strip fell in Israel and 120 fell inside the Strip itself.
Two hundred of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system with an intercept rate of 97%.
The Eshkol regional council said on Sunday that a missile hit a municipal house. The family was in the bomb shelter of the house and the structure itself suffered some damage. In addition, a missile fragment fell in an open area in Sderot, the municipality announced, adding that no injuries were reported.
The IDF also confirmed that Israeli Air Force planes they destroyed an attack tunnel belonging to Islamic Jihad in the southern and central part of the Strip.
Following the coup against the commander of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group in northern Gaza, Israel Defense Forces this Saturday they shot down their equivalent in the south, Khaled Mansour.
According to military officials, the operation was carried out in the Gaza Strip Saturday night. Khaled Mansour was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Palestinian city of Rafah.
It was the southern Gaza equivalent of Taysir al-Jabari, commander of the terror group in northern Gaza, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last Friday.
The death of yabari It was the first attack of Operation Dawn of the Islamic Jihad has fired 400 rockets at Israel, according to IDF estimates.
The head of the Army Operations Directorate, Major General Oded Basiuk, said thataccording to “all available information”, Israel had killed the entire leadership of the group.
(With information from AFP)
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