The Israeli air force bombed Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night in retaliation for new projectile fire from the Palestinian enclave to southern Israel, the agency said. army. The Israeli Ministry of Defense, which controls the crossing points into the Gaza Strip, has also announced the suspension of cement supplies to the Palestinian enclave and the abolition "until further notice" of 500 entry permits. from Israel into the enclave.
Since the announcement Tuesday by US President Donald Trump of his plan for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rockets, shells and incendiary balloons have been fired almost daily from the Gaza Strip on areas of southern Israel, bordering from the Gaza Strip, provoking Israeli responses. The Palestinians have rejected the American plan which provides, among other things, for the annexation by Israel of large areas of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
No casualties
The last rocket fire, Saturday evening, forced the leader of the "Blue-White" party, Benny Gantz, main rival of the outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the election of March 2, in campaign in the south of Israel, to take refuge with his team in a shelter, local media reported. The Israeli strikes were carried out on the night of Saturday to Sunday by "planes and helicopter gunships that targeted Hamas terrorist targets in the northern Gaza Strip," according to an army statement.
Among these targets is "an underground infrastructure (...) including a building used as an operating room," says the text. The strikes did not claim any victims, according to security sources from Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement in power in Gaza. A truce is currently in effect between the Hamas movement and Israel. Since 2008, three wars have fought between Israel and Hamas in the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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