Several rockets were fired Tuesday morning from the Gaza Strip to Israel, the Israeli army said after its operation against one of the main commanders of the armed group Islamic Jihad, killed in a strike against his home in the Palestinian territory .
Israel accuses Baha al-Atta of authoring several rounds of attacks on Israel from Palestinian territory and accusing him of planning other "terrorist acts".
The wife of Abu al-Atta was also killed in the explosion that devastated the building in the Shejaia district, said in a statement the Islamic Jihad, ally of Hamas, two organizations that the Israelis consider as terrorists. Two other people were injured.
Meanwhile, at least two people were killed and two wounded in an attack on a building in Damascus in the early hours of Tuesday, reported Syrian public television.
A representative of Islamic Jihad said the attack, which he blamed on Israel, targeted the home of one of the movement's political leaders. One of Akram al-Ajouri's sons was killed in the attack on their home in the Syrian capital, he said in a statement.
Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv
In response to the Israeli operation, Palestinian fighters fired a salvo of rockets against Israel, sounding the sirens of alert in the port city of Ashdod, located about 20 kilometers from the border, said witnesses. .
"There has been a significant number of shots fired at Israel," Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus said in a conference call, saying the army was preparing for "several days" clashes.
The Israeli press reported that the sirens of alert then sounded in Tel Aviv. No casualties or damage have been reported for the moment on the Israeli side.
The Israeli army said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had authorized the operation against Baha Abu al-Atta. "Abu al-Atta was responsible for the vast majority of Islamic Jihad's activities in the Gaza Strip and was a time bomb," she wrote in a statement, assuring the top commander planned "imminent terrorist attacks by various means ".
Islamic Jihad has threatened Israel with "inevitable" retaliation.
Hamas said Israel "bears full responsibility for all the consequences of this escalation", promising that Baha Abu al-Atta's death will not go unpunished.
With AFP and Reuters