Israel carried out airstrikes in the center of the Gaza Strip on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a few hours after intercepting a rocket fired from this Palestinian territory, we learned from the Israeli army.
New Palestinian rockets
Several new Palestinian rockets were fired after these attacks, and at around 3:15 a.m. (2:15 a.m. in Paris), further explosions and the sound of aircraft could be heard from Gaza City.
According to local security sources and witnesses, the first attacks (at least seven) hit a training center for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in the al-Maghazi refugee camp (center of the Gaza Strip).
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular Palestinian armed group, claimed to have carried out “a barrage of rockets […] in response to the Zionist aggression in the Gaza Strip”, among others.
On the Israeli side, warning sirens sounded in Sderot, a city in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip, according to the army.
Source: BFM TV
