Israel has again attacked targets in the Gaza Strip in response to fire balloons.
These, in turn, were seen as a protest by the Palestinians against the “flag march”.
Gaza / Jerusalem - Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip again on Wednesday night.
According to its own statements, the Israeli army responded to attacks with fire balloons from the Palestinian territory.
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 there.
In retaliation, the Israeli Air Force flew attacks in the Gaza Strip during the night, according to the army.
Accordingly, military sites and meeting points of the radical Islamic Hamas in the city of Chan Junis were shelled.
According to the
dpa,
around 5000 Israeli nationalists marched through Jerusalem
on Tuesday at the flag march
.
Supporters of ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu * organized the march of the nationalists.
This put the new government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett from the ultra-right Jamina party under pressure.
The route also passed through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, which Palestinians found a particular provocation.
Several fields had been burned down in southern Israel prior to the march.
The Israeli fire service has suggested that the fires were caused by fire balloons from the Gaza Strip.
Militant Palestinians repeatedly let such balloons loaded with explosives and incendiary devices fly over the border to Israel * in order to cause damage there.
Middle East conflict: More than 30 injured during “flag march” in Jerusalem
According to the
AFP,
thousands of police officers were
on duty at the flag march to stop riots.
More than 30 Palestinians were injured, according to rescue workers.
The “flag march” was the first test for the new Israeli government *.
Participants in the demonstration waved the Israeli flag and sang hymns of the Israeli settler movement in the occupied territories.
Israel had an eleven-day conflict with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip last month.
According to the authorities, 13 people were killed in Israel and, according to Palestinian accounts, 255 people died in Gaza.
Egypt eventually brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza ruling Hamas, which went into effect on May 21. The “flag march” on the occasion of the so-called Jerusalem Day was originally planned for May 10 and was canceled because of the rocket attacks by Hamas.
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