FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 record photo, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks arsenic helium meets with President Joe Biden successful the Oval Office of the White House, successful Washington. Early Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, Israeli planes struck Hamas militant targets successful the Gaza Strip, hours aft convulsive clashes betwixt Palestinian protesters and troops on the border. Before returning to Israel from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said his state volition run successful Gaza according to our interests. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 record photo, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks arsenic helium meets with President Joe Biden successful the Oval Office of the White House, successful Washington. Early Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, Israeli planes struck Hamas militant targets successful the Gaza Strip, hours aft convulsive clashes betwixt Palestinian protesters and troops on the border. Before returning to Israel from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said his state volition run successful Gaza according to our interests. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

JERUSALEM – Israeli planes struck Hamas militant targets successful the Gaza Strip aboriginal Sunday, hours aft convulsive clashes betwixt Palestinian protesters and troops on the border.

The Israeli subject said successful a connection that planes bombed a Hamas militant installation successful the Gaza Strip successful effect to the launching of incendiary balloons into confederate Israel and convulsive protests staged for a 2nd consecutive week.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke to reporters successful Washington earlier helium boarded a formation to Israel, wrapping up a authorities sojourn that culminated with a face-to-face gathering with President Joe Biden. It was the archetypal since Bennett took bureau successful June.

“We volition run successful Gaza according to our interests," helium said successful Hebrew connected the tarmac.

Bennett said helium “achieved each the objectives for the trip" to Washington, including strategical practice successful preventing Iran from obtaining atomic weapons.

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On Saturday, hundreds of Hamas-backed activists staged a nighttime protestation on the Israeli border, throwing explosives toward Israeli forces who responded with unrecorded fire. Gaza wellness officials said 3 radical were injured by Israeli fire. Additional protests were planned done the week.

Organizers said the protests are meant to summation unit connected Israel to assistance its blockade of the Palestinian territory. Israel and Egypt person maintained the blockade since Hamas, a radical sworn to Israel’s destruction, seized power of Gaza successful a 2007 coup aft winning Palestinian elections. Israel and Hamas person fought 4 wars since, the astir caller successful May.

The blockade restricts the question of goods and radical successful and retired of Gaza and has ravaged the territory’s economy. Israel has tightened the closure since an 11-day warfare successful May, demanding the instrumentality of the remains of 2 dormant soldiers and state for 2 Israeli civilians believed to beryllium successful Hamas captivity.

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Egypt is moving to enactment up a cease-fire to extremity May's warring and appeared to beryllium making advancement past week.

At slightest 260 Palestinians were killed during May’s Hamas-Israel war, including 67 children and 39 women, according to the Gaza wellness ministry. Hamas has acknowledged the deaths of 80 militants. Twelve civilians, including 2 children, were killed successful Israel, on with 1 soldier.

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