Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that sirens were sounded in Israeli towns and settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli army said that the Iron Dome intercepted two shells fired from the Strip.
The Palestinian Shehab News Agency quoted Israeli sources as saying that a settler was wounded by shrapnel, while another settler was injured in a state of panic after damages to a house inside the settlement of Sderot after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip.
On its official Twitter page, the agency published a video showing shrapnel falling on a house in Sderot as the Iron Dome system tried to stop two rockets fired from Gaza.
# Watch the occupation’s attempt to confront two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. During the confrontation, shrapnel fell on a house in Sderot, wounding a settler, and the second was for panic pic.twitter.com/lpHrqwGu0x
- Shehab Agency (@ShehabAgency) August 15, 2020
The Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids on sites belonging to the Palestinian resistance and vacant lands in various areas of the Gaza Strip, and the bombing resulted in material damage and major destruction in the targeted sites, without any injuries among the citizens reported.
A spokesman for the Israeli occupation army said that the warplanes targeted a number of sites belonging to Hamas.
He explained that the bombing was in response to the launching of incendiary balloons from the Gaza Strip and the marches on the border strip.
In a related context, two Palestinian youths were injured by bullets from the Israeli occupation forces during a march on the eastern borders of Gaza City, in what is known as "night confusion marches."
The Ministry of Health said in a brief statement that "two Palestinians were wounded by live bullets, one in the abdomen and the second in the lower extremities east of Gaza City."
A video showing the injury of a citizen as a result of the occupation attacking the demonstrators in the Malaka area, east of Gaza pic.twitter.com/MUowm1rdxO
- Shehab Agency (@ShehabAgency) August 15, 2020
The occupation army fired live bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse the demonstrators, while Palestinian youths set fire to rubber tires and threw stun grenades towards the border area.
4 civilians were injured earlier in the day in a series of raids and artillery shelling a number of sites and agricultural lands in the north and central Gaza Strip.
During the past few days, the occupation army bombed targets it said belonged to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in response to Palestinian youths launching "incendiary balloons" from the Strip towards settlements in the Gaza envelope.
The launchers of the incendiary balloons say that they are using them with the aim of forcing Israel to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip imposed since 2007, which has caused deterioration of the living conditions of the population.
Palestinian youth repeat the protest of the night confusion, interspersed with the firing of stun and luminous bombs east of the "Gaza Strip" ... pic.twitter.com/BiymgCaqOk
- Nezar Sameer (@ NezarSameer2) August 15, 2020
The “Night Confusion” marches are night marches near the Gaza border with Israel, organized by youth groups, in which sound bombs are used and vehicle tires are set on fire, with the aim of disturbing the Israeli army and residents of settlements adjacent to the border.
That unit had started working at night only as part of the return marches and the peaceful break of the siege at the end of August 2018, before it gradually stopped in October 2019.
For about a week, the Gaza Strip has been in a state of security and field tension, following the continued launch of "balloons" carrying inflammable materials from the Strip, which caused fires in neighboring Israeli towns.
The Israeli army launches raids against sites of Hamas and the factions in Gaza, which it says are in response to the launching of balloons.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government decided to tighten the siege on the Gaza Strip by preventing the entry of fuel and building materials into it, and reducing the space available to fishermen.