Hamas rocket launches continue in Israeli areas around the Gaza Strip where alarm sirens continually resound. A 58-year-old Israeli was killed in the night, around 2:30 am, by a rocket fired from Gaza while he was at the entrance to his home in Ashkelon, southern Israel. The man died while on his way to the hospital: he is the first victim in Israel since the beginning of the new phase of confrontation, last Friday. Another 83 people were injured.
In Israel the atmosphere is very heavy. Since yesterday the Palestinians have launched 450 rockets and mortar shells from Gaza, while Israel - specifies the military radio - has hit over 200 targets of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Strip. In Ofakim, near Gaza, a rocket fell into the garden of a house. Another has a primary school. The rain of missiles targeted communities around the Gaza Strip, Ashkelon and Ashdod, up to Beersheba, Beit Shemesh and Gedera. Eight Palestinians have died in the Strip, including at least three militiamen. Among the victims also a 14-month-old girl and her pregnant mother. An Israeli military spokesman denied that they were killed in air raids and called in "defective Hamas or Islamic Jihad weapons". Among the injured, around forty according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least one other child.
Usa: "Israel defends itself". Ankara's conviction The military escalation on the Gaza border has caused strong international political tension. During the night the US State Department intervened claiming "the right to self-defense of Israel after the missile attacks". And the Italian Interior Minister, Matteo, Salvini, with a tweet expressed "solidarity with the Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu and the Israeli people".
One of the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip hit the offices of the Turkish news agency Anadol, provoking the reaction of Ankara's diplomacy. "We condemn Israel - tweeted the spokesman of the Turkish presidency Fahrettin Altun - for attacking a building in which Anadolu is based: we ask all the governments that claim to defend the freedom of the press to join us in condemning the bombing" .
Israeli military operations The Israeli military said the targets targeted in Gaza were bases and structures controlled by Hamas and Islamic Jihad throughout the Strip. Also hit a tunnel on the border dug by the Jihad and an underground factory where rockets were built. Strengthened by Wahsington's support, Netanyahu convened the security council: the crossings with Gaza have been closed and fishing grounds banned "We will respond forcefully and promptly to any attack on the security of our people", said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
Islamic Jihad: "We will hit the nuclear power plant, ports and airport" In response to Israeli raids, Islamic Jihad threatened to hit important strategic goals. In a statement, Islamist militants warn that they could attack the Dimona nuclear power plant, Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport and the ports of Ashdod and Haifa. The Hamas leader in Gaza, Yihia Sinwar and the Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nahala are currently in Cairo for consultations with Egyptian intelligence. It is still not clear what instructions they have given to their militants from there. So far, neither Hamas nor the Gaza Interior Ministry has given indications to the population on how to deal with this new crisis that comes on the eve of the beginning of Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims.
The social war of the Israeli army While rocket launches and retaliatory raids continue on the field, a parallel 'war' of propaganda is fought, so to speak, made also with 'blows' of posts on social media. The Israeli army (Israel Defense Forces), for example, publishes the various stages of the battle on its Twitter page. In a post the video of the images immediately after the explosion occurred in the courtyard of a school with the comment "What would you do if a rocket exploded in your children's elementary school?" In another the images shot inside a house gutted by a rocket with the comment "200 rockets rained on the homes of Israeli families today: look". In another post there is still a video of an Israeli TV that recorded a rocket explosion against a house. And then he always recorded live the interception of another rocket detonated by the anti-missile system 'steel shield' (Iron Dome) while it was still in flight.
The beginning of tension in Gaza The escalation began on Friday when two Israeli soldiers were wounded by a sniper who fired from the Gaza border. "At the beginning of the day - explains a tweet of the Israeli army - hundreds of Gaza citizens have made a revolt on the Israeli border. Our soldiers were among the rioters and Israeli families living nearby. Using civilians as cover, a sniper fired at our soldiers, wounding two ".
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