The Israeli army shelled Hamas positions in the southern Gaza Strip overnight from Saturday to Sunday after rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, security sources and the Israeli army said.
In a brief message to the press, the Israeli army said "is
currently carrying out strikes against terrorist targets
" in this Palestinian territory under the control of the armed Islamist movement Hamas.
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Israeli fighter planes target a site of the al-Qassam brigades (armed wing of Hamas, editor's note) west of Khan Younès
", a town in the south of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources told AFP , also reporting artillery fire on an observation base of the Islamist movement in the north of the enclave.
On Saturday morning, two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip fell in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv.
The alarm sirens had not been triggered and the rocket interception system had not been activated, the IDF said in a statement.
Sworn enemies Israel and Hamas fought an eleven-day war in May 2021, their fourth since the armed Islamist movement seized power in Gaza.
Since the entry into force of a fragile ceasefire, five projectiles (rockets or shells) have so far been fired from Gaza into Israeli territory, the lowest number in the six months following an Israel war. / Hamas, according to the army's annual report released on December 29