Air raid sirens sound in Israel after rocket fired from Gaza

JERUSALEM – Air raid sirens sounded successful confederate Israel connected Monday aft a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip, the archetypal since the 11-day warfare betwixt Israel and Palestinian militants successful May.

There was nary contiguous assertion of work for the rocket fire. It came hours aft Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian gunmen during a late-night apprehension raid successful the occupied West Bank, sidesplitting 4 Palestinians successful 1 of the deadliest battles successful the country successful years.

The Israeli subject said successful a connection that it identified 1 rocket motorboat that was intercepted by aerial defence batteries. Amateur video footage appeared to amusement the rocket being intercepted implicit the confederate municipality of Sderot.

The rocket occurrence could jeopardize 3 months of comparative calm since Israel and the militant radical Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip struck a cease-fire.

In the clashes earlier, warring erupted successful Jenin, a metropolis successful the bluish West Bank wherever tensions person been precocious since a antheral was killed successful warring with Israel earlier this month.

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Israel's paramilitary borderline constabulary said its forces were attempting to apprehension a fishy erstwhile they “came nether dense occurrence from adjacent range” by a fig of gunmen. It said Israeli forces returned fire, and nary of its officers were injured.

The authoritative Palestinian quality agency, WAFA, said 4 men were killed by Israeli occurrence and a 5th was earnestly wounded. Amateur footage from the country appeared to amusement an aggravated speech of gunfire successful the streets of Jenin.

Senior Palestinian authoritative Hussein Al Sheikh accused Israel of “a heinous crime” and tweeted that “the planetary assemblage should beryllium ashamed of its soundlessness astir this and its nonaccomplishment to supply extortion to the Palestinian radical from this oppression.”

During the 2nd Palestinian uprising successful the aboriginal 2000s, Jenin experienced immoderate of the heaviest warring with Israel, though the country has mostly been quiescent successful caller years. According to the Israeli military, determination person been astatine slightest 8 clashes betwixt troops and Palestinian gunmen implicit the past 2 months.

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The West Bank has experienced an uptick successful deadly unit successful caller months, with implicit 2 twelve Palestinians killed by Israeli occurrence successful caller weeks, including children and Palestinian protesters. Israel's warfare successful May successful the Gaza Strip, driven by friction successful astatine a contention Jerusalem beatified tract and attempts by a settler radical to evict Palestinians successful eastbound Jerusalem, and the caller constitution of a West Bank colony outpost person contributed to the tensions.

Last week, Israel's subject main urged troops to travel nonrecreational regulations and “act with discretion" successful airy of the complexity of the situation.

Israel captured the West Bank successful the 1967 Mideast warfare and successful the decades since has established dozens of settlements wherever astir 500,000 settlers reside. The Palestinians question the West Bank arsenic portion of their aboriginal authorities and presumption the settlements arsenic a large obstacle to resolving the conflict.

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