The Israeli army carried out a strike against a Hamas military compound in Gaza
Smoke rises in the sky after the Israeli airstrike on a Hamas military compound in Gaza on February 13, 2023. AFP - MAHMUD HAMS
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Israel carried out airstrikes against a Hamas military compound in Gaza overnight from Sunday to Monday in response to a rocket fired from Palestinian territory, the army said early Monday (February 13th).
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In response to the launch of a rocket from Gaza into Israel on Saturday, IDF warplanes overnight struck an underground complex containing raw materials used for the manufacture of rockets belonging to the terrorist organization Hamas
," the statement said. the Israeli army on Twitter.
Sirens
After the Israeli strikes, sirens sounded in communities near the Gaza border, the army said.
There was no immediate confirmation on Monday of retaliatory rocket fire from the Palestinian side.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also said one person was killed in a pre-dawn raid by the Israeli army in Nablus in the northern West Bank, the scene of near-incessant violence for a year.
The Israeli army did not comment on the strike.
Escalation
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is experiencing a spectacular escalation of violence.
Since the beginning of the year, the conflict has claimed the lives of 47 Palestinian adults and children, activists and civilians alike, after the latest death in Nablus.
Nine Israeli civilians, including three children, and one Ukrainian civilian were killed in the same period, according to an AFP tally based on official sources from both sides.
In a move likely to heighten tensions, Israel's security cabinet announced late Saturday (February 11th) that it would legalize nine Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank in response to a series of Palestinian attacks in East Jerusalem. .
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967. More than 475,000 Israelis reside in settlements in the West Bank, where 2.8 million Palestinians live.
Most are in settlements that Israel has unilaterally authorized, but some live in communities that have not received government authorization.
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