TEL AVIV – The Israeli army attacked some 100 targets in Gaza in the weehours of Friday in retaliation to multiple rockets fired at Tel Aviv fromthe Strip, the evening before.
According to a preliminary army assessment, the rockets were fired at TelAviv by mistake during maintenance work, however, Israel ignored the glitchand responded heavily.
According to the health ministry, Israel’s response left four Palestinianswounded, however, the rockets that landed in Tel Aviv did not cause anyharm. Israel’s military said a total of 4 rockets were fired.
Israel blamed first Islamic Jihad and later Hamas for the rocket fire,however, both organizations deny their involvement in the attack whichprompted a response from Israel and could have led to a major escalation.
The group explained that the rockets had been launched during a meetingwith Egyptian mediators to broker a long-term truce between Israel and it.link[image: View image on Twitter]link:View image on Twitter]link:View image on Twitter]link:View image on Twitter]link
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An Israeli defense official said on Friday that the growing assumptionamong Israeli army officials is that Thursday’s rockets were fired fromGaza toward Tel Aviv by mistake.
The interior ministry in Gaza said the rocket fire went against thenational consensus and vowed to take measures against those involved.
The fresh wave of conflict prompted the organizing committee for the Marchof Return in Gaza to call off the weekly protest along the Israel-Gazaborder.
The Israeli military announced on Twitter that it targeted 100 Hamastargets in Gaza, including an office complex used to plan and command thegroup’s activities.
Israel took a strong exception to the ‘mistake’ and targeted areas fromRafah in the south to the north of the densely populated coastal strip thatis home to two million Palestinians.
