Israeli jets bomb Gaza Strip after rockets fired at south …
Posted By simmons on September 25, 2015
Israeli Air Force jets bombed targets in the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday morning following rocket fire late Friday at cities in southern Israel.
The IDF said in a statement that Israeli planes struck three targets in the northern Gaza Strip belonging to Hamas. Local reports identified the locations as near the Gaza Strip town of Jabaliya.
There were no injuries in the strikes, the al-Watan Voice news site reported.
Earlier, the Israeli Navy fired on targets in Gaza, according to Walla news.
The reported strikes came shortly after Israels Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted a rocket fired at the southern city of Ashkelon on Friday night, hours after a similar attack saw a rocket strike open land in a residential area of Sderot.
The interception was the first since last summers war between Israel and armed Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip last summer.
Local residents reported hearing loud explosions in the Ashkelon area shortly before midnight. There were no injuries reported in the attack. The Israel Defense Forces were investigating whether there were any strikes on Israeli soil, Channel 10 television reported.
There were no injuries reported in the Sderot strike, although there was some damage to property, and several people needed treatment for shock.
A Palestinian Salafist group affiliated with the Islamic State took responsibility for the rocket attacks shortly after midnight on Saturday. The Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade has claimed a number of rocket attacks against Israel this year in defiance of Gazas Hamas rulers.
Israel Police said that a bus was damaged in the Sderot strike, while the Ynet website reported that a home was also damaged. The residents were inside at the time of the strike, Ynet said, adding that several people were treated at the scene for shock. One woman was taken to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon after complaining of chest pains and ringing in her ears, the website reported.
The sirens sounded at around 8:45 p.m. Friday night in southern Israeli communities along the Gaza border, after Israeli defenses identified two rocket launches from the coastal strip.
Air raid sirens sounded in Sderot and nearby communities, Channel 10 television said. The Home Front Command confirmed the rocket launches and instructed local residents to enter their protected areas.
Residents of Sderot reported, however, that public bomb shelters, which ordinarily open automatically once sirens sound, didnt unlock during Friday nights incident.
Sderot municipality called Friday night for a strong Israeli response to the rocket fire.
There is a pattern of activity designed to harm [local] inhabitants, in particular at sensitive times such as the holidays, the city council said. We have to exact a heavy price from Hamas and respond aggressively to the fire and not just as a response.
The attack followed a day of clashes in Jerusalem between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters.
The Islamist Hamas movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, had declared Friday to be a Day of Rage in response to days of violence on and around the Temple Mount a site holy to Jews and Muslims that houses the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israel had restricted entry to the Mount for Friday prayers earlier in the day, allowing only women and men over the age of 40 to pray there. Hundreds of Palestinians protested outside the Damascus Gate on Friday and three Border Police officers were wounded in an attack in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Sderot and the surrounding area were battered by rockets during Israels 50-day war with Hamas last summer. The rocket strikes mostly tailed off after the conflict, although there has been sporadic fire in recent days as tensions flared in Jerusalem. Most recently, a rocket fired at Israel from Gaza early Wednesday fell short of the border and landed in the Palestinian coastal territory.
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