No de-escalation in sight.
This Sunday, the Islamic Jihad group claimed to have fired rockets towards Jerusalem for the first time since hostilities began on Friday.
The escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip, where 29 Palestinians including six children have died, therefore continues unabated in this confrontation between the Palestinian armed group and Israel, the most serious since a blitzkrieg last year. .
The worst confrontation since May 2021
Warning sirens sounded in the morning in the Jerusalem area, the Israeli army announced, while AFP journalists in Jerusalem heard brief explosions in the distance.
"Not long ago, we fired rockets at Jerusalem," the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said in a statement issued on Sunday.
This is the first time that projectiles have been fired at Jerusalem since the start of the ongoing armed escalation with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The day before, the alarms had already gone off near the metropolis of Tel Aviv and the Islamic jihad had confirmed having fired "a major barrage of rockets" in this direction.
This new confrontation is the worst between the Jewish state and armed organizations in Gaza since the May 2021 war which left 260 dead in eleven days on the Palestinian side, including combatants, and 14 dead in Israel, including a soldier, d 'after the local authorities.
World
Violence in Gaza: After deadly exchanges of fire, Israel plans “a week” of raids
World
Gaza violence: Nineteen Islamic Jihad operatives arrested in West Bank raids
World
Israel
Jerusalem
Israelo-Palestinian conflict
israeli army
Gaza
Palestine
Islamism