Gaza air strikes observe heaviest rocket hearth by Hamas in months

Israel has carried out recent air strikes on Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered retaliation for one of many heaviest barrages of rocket-fire by Hamas in months.

The Israeli navy mentioned about half of the ten rockets which have been fired from Gaza late on Sunday landed inside Israel, whereas the rest have been shot down. One particular person was wounded by falling particles, Israeli medics mentioned.

Netanyahu issued the instruction for a “sturdy response” whereas on his solution to Washington, the place he is because of maintain talks with US President Donald Trump.

The Hamas-run well being ministry in Gaza mentioned on Monday morning that at the least 56 Palestinians had killed there by Israel over the earlier 24 hours.

A Palestinian journalist was killed and 9 others wounded when an air strike hit a tent utilized by native media in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, the Hamas Authorities Media Workplace and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate mentioned.

Reuters information company mentioned footage confirmed folks attempting to place out a blaze within the tent which it mentioned was contained in the compound of Nasser hospital.

The useless journalist was recognized by the Journalists Syndicate as Helmi al-Faqaawi of Palestine Right this moment TV.

The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) has not commented on the incident.

Nasser, which is the most important hospital nonetheless functioning in Gaza, has been struck a number of occasions by the IDF for the reason that begin of the warfare in October 2023.

Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of utilizing hospitals as covert bases and for storing weapons, which the group denies.

Earlier, the IDF mentioned it had hit the launcher which fired the rockets at Israel, after ordering residents in a number of districts of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza to evacuate.

Issuing the order, IDF Arabic spokesman Lt Col Avichay Adraee warned that Israel would “launch a extreme strike on any space from which rockets are fired”.

Hamas mentioned it fired the rockets in response to Israeli “massacres of civilians in Gaza”, Reuters information company reported.

Footage from the Israeli metropolis of Ashkelon confirmed flashes within the sky as sirens wailed and an explosion on the backside of a block of flats throughout the rocket assault on Sunday evening.

The speed and scale of Hamas’s rocket assaults sharply dropped after the primary few months of the warfare, as Israel intensively focused its arsenals and launchers. However the group nonetheless intermittently fires at Israel, in an indication that it nonetheless possesses capabilities.

Israeli air strikes continued in a single day following the assault on the rocket launchers, with the official Palestinian information company Wafa reporting that websites in north, central and south Gaza have been hit.

Efforts to attempt to restore a ceasefire are persevering with, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Cairo on Monday with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.

Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the Gaza warfare and Israel’s efforts to safe the discharge of the 59 hostages nonetheless being held by Hamas can be on the agenda throughout his talks with Donald Trump on the White Home on Monday.

Israel resumed its navy marketing campaign in Gaza final month, blaming Hamas for rejecting a US proposal to increase a ceasefire which had begun in January. Hamas, in flip, accused Israel of abandoning the unique deal which either side had agreed to.

The warfare was triggered by Hamas’s unprecedented assault on Israel on 7 October 2023, through which about 1,200 folks have been killed and 251 others taken again to Gaza as hostages.

Greater than 50,750 Palestinians have been killed within the Israeli offensive since then, in keeping with the Hamas-run well being ministry.