The Israeli Army confirmed this Sunday the launch of eight rockets from Rafah, in the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, towards central Israel, including Tel Aviv, in an attack that was claimed by the Islamist group Hamas and which constitutes the first against the area in about four months.
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A woman was slightly injured when shrapnel hit the roof of her house in Herzliya (about 13 kilometers from Tel Aviv), according to police. The paramedics of the Israeli rescue team had to treat two other women, who were affected by the fall of shrapnel when they were heading to a shelter during the attack, without specifying in which town.
Palestinians search for their relatives in the rubble.
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A military spokesman already announced last week that the Israeli Army believes that the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has an arsenal of rockets in Rafah with the capacity to reach the center of Israel and that they would make use of it as Israeli troops advanced towards the inside that city at the southern end of Gaza, bordering Egypt.
The armed wing of Hamas, the brigades of Al Qasamhas confirmed the launch of “a battery of rockets in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians.”
Air raid sirens have been heard in Tel Aviv and other nearby cities and then the explosions of the Iron Dome, the Israeli air defense system, intercepting the projectiles. Emergency services reported that shrapnel has fallen in several places, in the city of Ranana, north of Tel Aviv, and also in the cities of Petah Tikva and Bnei Brak.
Barely an hour after the launch of the rockets, a new attack – claimed by Palestinian Islamic Jihad – has raised alarm bells in communities near the Gaza Strip, according to the Army.
EFE
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