The Israeli army struck targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning. The army announced this on Twitter. Details of the attacks would be given later. According to Israeli media, warplanes attacked targets in central Gaza.
A few hours earlier, the Israeli army said it had intercepted a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. It was on its way to the town of Sderot, in southern Israel on the border with the Gaza Strip, where alarm sirens had gone off. The fighter group called Lions’ Den has now claimed responsibility for that attack. This group consists mainly of young men from different armed factions in the city of Nablus and is often involved in attacks and confrontations with the Israeli army. It is the first time that the group has claimed a missile strike.
The first Israeli attacks targeted a training center of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.
“Barrage of Missiles”
A reporter from the AFP news agency saw that two new rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip after those Israeli attacks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular Palestinian armed group, claimed to have “carried out a barrage of rockets in response to Zionist aggression in the Gaza Strip.”
A subsequent second round of Israeli airstrikes targeted another al-Qassam Brigades training center southwest of Gaza City, according to local security sources.
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