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The ceasefire has been in force for several weeks, but the situation in the Middle East is currently threatening to escalate again.
Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night.
According to reports from Palestinian security circles, the Israeli army reacted to attacks with fire balloons from the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli armed forces confirmed the attacks according to the first eyewitness reports.
During protests against the so-called flag march in Jerusalem on Tuesday, demonstrators had incendiary devices attached to balloons flying into southern Israel, which, according to the Israeli fire service, caused at least 20 fires.
According to Palestinian sources, at least one target in the city of Chan Junis in the Gaza Strip was shot at during the air strikes.
It was the first Israeli air strikes in Gaza since the end of the 11-day conflict between Israel and radical Islamic Hamas in May.
The conflict escalated on May 10 when Hamas fired massive rockets at Israel in response to clashes between Palestinians and police in East Jerusalem.
By the May 21 ceasefire, 260 Palestinians had been killed in the Gaza Strip, including many children.
According to the army, 13 people were killed in the rocket attacks on Israel, including a child and a youth.
March should be a reminder of the Six Day War
On Tuesday there were protests in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank against the so-called flag march, in which more than a thousand ultra-right Israelis marched through Jerusalem.
In the Gaza Strip, demonstrators set fire balloons on the border with Israel; in the West Bank, demonstrators set fire to car tires and pelted Israeli security forces with stones.
Even before the march began, clashes between Palestinians and security forces broke out in East Jerusalem when they cleared streets in the annexed eastern part of the city.
Thousands of police officers were on duty during the march to stop the riots.
Rescue workers said 33 Palestinians were injured.
The police reported 17 arrests.
With the flag march, nationalist Israelis commemorate the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War.
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