Israel attacked Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip on Thursday night, the latest episode in a new outbreak of violence in the Middle East against which calls for restraint seem futile.
Warplanes hit “a tunnel” in the Beit Hanoun area (north of the Gaza Strip), and another in the Khan Younis area (south of the territory), an Israeli army statement said.
“Two arms manufacturing centers belonging to Hamas” were also attacked, an Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, the text added, presenting the operation as “a response to the security breaches (by Israel) committed for Hamas these days”. “
“They will pay the price of each attack”
In a press release, Hamas said it held “Israel responsible for this aggression and its consequences” and called on “all Palestinian factions to unite to confront the occupation” (Israel, editor’s note).
“We will hit our enemies and they will pay the price for every attack,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier in Tel Aviv at the opening of a security-restricted cabinet meeting.
In the afternoon, more than thirty rockets were fired at Israel from Lebanon, an unprecedented escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese front since 2006.
The Israeli army has accused Palestinian militants of being behind the shooting that injured at least one person and caused property damage on Pesach, the Jewish Passover.
Cet accès de violence à la frontière nord d’Israël a sucité condemnations et appels à la retenue, et survient au lendemain de l’irruption brutale en plein ramadan, de la police israélienne dans la mosquee Al-Aqsa de Jérusalem, troisième lieu saint de Islam.
The Israeli military is certain that the unclaimed rocket attacks from Lebanon were “Palestinian” and, according to it, probably the work of Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said he rejected “any escalation from his territory.”
Deeming the situation “extremely serious,” the UN called for “restraint and avoid further escalation.”
Source: BFM TV
