Israeli warplanes on the night of 1 to 2 November increased the number of strikes against alleged Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip, killing at least one person. This military operation was organized in retaliation for the rocket fire fired from the Palestinian enclave to Israel.

Friday night, after the start of the Sabbath, a dozen rockets were sent to the Israeli city of Sderot, bordering the Gaza Strip. This is the second incident of its kind in two nights, after about six weeks of lull.

The Israeli army has announced that it has intercepted eight of these rockets thanks to its missile shield "Iron Dome". However, a rocket hit a house in Sderot without causing injuries but causing property damage, the Israeli police said.

Several Hamas sites bombed

In retaliation, IDF aircraft shelled Hamas "targets" in the middle of the night. The strikes, which were heard from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip by the AFP team on the spot, hit a naval site, a military complex with "missile simulators", "underground infrastructure", a weapons factory and a warehouse according to the Israeli army.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Saturday morning at least one Palestinian, 27-year-old dead and at least two seriously wounded in Israeli bombings, which also caused "significant material damage". according to a secure source on site.

On Saturday morning, Palestinians massed in front of a crater several meters deep and dug into sandy soil in the south of the enclave, while others walked on debris of cement and metal, noting the extent of the damage. , according to an AFP journalist on the spot.

A source in Hamas also said that the Islamist movement had opened fire on an Israeli plane carrying out strikes, which also targeted facilities of Islamic Jihad, another influential armed group in the Gaza Strip, officials said. square.

These strikes contrast with the relative calm that prevailed in recent weeks along the fence between Gaza and Israel after a ping-pong rocket and air strikes in August raising fears of escalation between Hamas and the Jewish state. .

With AFP