The Israeli army announced at dawn today, Saturday, that it had intercepted a missile fired from the Gaza Strip, and sirens sounded in the city of Ashkelon, after the funeral of 3 martyrs in Jenin in the West Bank. Israel.
The Israeli army said in a statement, "A single shell was identified, from the Gaza Strip, towards Israeli territory, and it was intercepted by air defense fighters."
The Israeli army had said earlier that warning sirens were sounded in the city of Ashkelon (south), and other areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip, after monitoring the launch of rocket-propelled grenades from Gaza.
Yesterday, the artillery of the occupation army bombed with a number of missiles the vicinity of the Beit Hanoun-Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, and an Israeli reconnaissance plane targeted agricultural land near the security fence in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip with two missiles.
Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli bombing caused material damage, but no injuries, in the targeted area.
Yesterday evening, Friday, Israeli military sources said that a surveillance balloon had fallen over the Beit Hanoun-Erez crossing north of Gaza, denying that it had fallen under the fire of the Palestinian resistance, while local sources indicated that members of the resistance had taken control of the balloon after it fell.
Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli drone fired a missile at a border agricultural area near the place where the balloon fell, but no injuries were reported.
Witnesses also reported that shooting was heard in that area, coinciding with the flight of Israeli drones.
Yesterday, Palestinian media published scenes from the farewell moments of 3 young men who were martyred in Jenin, where Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that about 30 military vehicles stormed the city at dawn on Friday and set up an ambush, and surrounded a car in the neighborhood of Al-Jarrah, then shot 4 young men who were inside, killing 3 The fourth was seriously injured, before withdrawing.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affirmed that the assassination will not go unpunished, stressing that the Palestinian people and their resistance know "how to strike the enemy."
After the funerals of the martyrs, the Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Aviv Kohavi, said, "Several divisions, including soldiers from the Golani unit in the Jenin area, carried out a night-time campaign of arrests. One of these forces identified a suspicious car, and there was a cohesion and confrontation led by the division's leaders, and they thwarted a terrorist cell and killed 3."
He added - in a speech before Israeli soldiers - that no country in the world is under threat as Israel is, and there is no country in the world that deals with this number of enemies and at the same time works on all these fronts to deter them, as he put it.