Israel opens fire on the Gaza Strip after intercepting a rocket coming from Palestinian territory .
According to a journalist from AFP - the French news agency - and other witnesses, the attack on Tel Aviv would have been more massive , with the launch of at least three more missiles . The Israeli army has confirmed that "it is currently hitting the Gaza Strip" and so far the emergency services have reported no casualties on either front.
Hazem Qassem, spokesman for Hamas , the Palestinian Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, called the Israeli attacks "a continuation of the cycle of aggression against the Palestinian people " and accused the Israeli government and its " extremist policy ". to "open wide the door to a real escalation on the territory". The Israeli army has warned for its part that it holds "Hamas responsible for any terrorist activity coming from the Gaza Strip" and that the movement should " pay the consequences for violations of Israel's security ".
According to local Palestinian security sources, Israeli strikes targeted a training center of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and another one southwest of Gaza. city. The Israeli military said the planes "hit a production and storage center for chemical materials used to produce missiles " belonging to Hamas and an arms production center , both located in the center of the Gaza Strip.
(Unioneonline/vf)
