Israel strikes Gaza after missile across border: army
24
July, 2017
Israel
struck a position of Islamist group Hamas in Gaza on Monday, the army
said, hours after a missile was fired across the border from the
Palestinian enclave.
"An
(Israeli) tank targeted a post belonging to the Hamas terror
organisation in the southern Gaza Strip" in the early hours of
the morning, the army said in a statement.
A
Hamas security source told AFP on condition of anonymity that five
strikes hit an observation post of the group's military wing near
Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
The
source said separate strikes hit farming land in central Gaza, with
no injuries reported in either incident.
The
Israeli strike came hours after a "projectile fired from the
Gaza Strip" hit an open area inside Israel without causing any
injuries, the army said.
Israel
and Hamas, who run Gaza, have fought three wars since 2008.
Since
the last one in 2014, a fragile ceasefire has been observed along the
largely closed border.
Missiles
and rockets are periodically fired at Israel, generally by hardline
Islamist groups opposed to Hamas.
But
Israel holds Hamas responsible for all rocket fire from Gaza
regardless of who carried it out, and usually retaliates within
hours.
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