Israeli army tanks bombed the night of Tuesday January 19 to Wednesday January 20 positions of Islamists Hamas in the Gaza Strip, after another rocket fire into Israel from this Palestinian territory, the Israeli army announced. .
“Earlier in the evening, a projectile was launched from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.
In retaliation, tanks hit Hamas positions "
in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said in a WhatsApp message.
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Security sources in Gaza, a Palestinian enclave of two million people controlled by Islamists Hamas and under Israeli blockade, reported at least three Israeli strikes overnight.
Earlier in the evening, Palestinians on Tuesday fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip against southern Israel, the IDF said, without claiming any casualties.
The warning sirens in the Israeli territories bordering the Palestinian enclave had not sounded, however, the army said, indicating that the projectile had fallen in an uninhabited area.
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Early Monday before dawn, the Israeli air force carried out strikes against Hamas sites in retaliation for two rockets that fell this time in the Mediterranean Sea, near Ashdod, a town about thirty kilometers north of Gaza. .
At the end of December, Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, for the first time carried out joint military exercises in Gaza, including rocket fire into the sea, to mark the anniversary of the 2008 war with Israel .
Since that date, Hamas and Israel have fought two more wars, in 2012 and 2014.
