2023-12-31 23:23:00
1.01.2024 00:23
(Akt. 1.01.2024 00:23)
Most of the rockets are said to have been intercepted (archive image) ©APA/AFP
According to a media report, rockets were fired at Israel again at the beginning of the new year. As the Times of Israel newspaper reported on New Year’s Eve, the terrorist organization Hamas fired more than 20 rockets towards Israel. Most were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. The sirens were sounding in several places in the center of the country and in the south of Israel.
Hamas’ armed wing said the shelling was in response to “massacres of civilians” in the Gaza Strip. According to the emergency services, no injuries were initially reported, the Times of Israel reported.
There has been war between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel for almost three months. The trigger was the worst massacre in Israel’s history on October 7th, in which terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups murdered around 1,200 people in Israel and abducted around 240 others to the Gaza Strip. Israel responded with massive air strikes and a ground offensive. The government’s goal is the complete destruction of Hamas. The number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war has risen to 21,822, according to the Hamas-controlled health authority in Gaza. The number cannot currently be independently verified.
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