Israel has carried out air strikes in opposition to Palestinian militants in Gaza in what it calls retaliation for rocket fireplace from the enclave. The aerial assault adopted an Israeli navy raid within the West Financial institution on Wednesday that claimed 11 lives.

Taking to Twitter on Thursday, the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) stated: “In response to the rockets fired from Gaza, IAF fighter jets struck each a weapons manufacturing web site and navy compound belonging to the Hamas Terrorist Group, positioned in central and northern Gaza.”

Israeli navy officers additionally accused the militant group of intentionally putting its services close to civilian infrastructure.

Earlier the identical day, the IDF reported {that a} whole of six rockets had been fired from Gaza towards Israeli territory, with 5 of them having been intercepted and the opposite touchdown in an “open space.”

There have been no reviews of harm or casualties.

On Wednesday, the IDF carried out a raid within the metropolis of Nablus within the West Financial institution, focusing on three militants. Nevertheless, eight civilians, together with a 72-year-old man and a youngster, additionally misplaced their lives because of the operation.

In line with media reviews, Israeli troops opened dwell fireplace on Palestinians protesting in opposition to the raid. The Guardian quoted unnamed Palestinian officers as saying that at the least 103 folks had sustained accidents.

Ziad al-Nakhala, head of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad militant group, branded the raid a “main crime” which the “resistance should reply to.”

In the meantime, the Palestinian Well being Ministry reported on Wednesday that the Israeli navy has killed 62 Palestinians because the begin of the 12 months.

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