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Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday, killing at least seven people, adding a senior official and wounding 40 others, according to Palestinian officials. a high-ranking militant in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.
The movements threaten to trigger a new war in the territory, which is run by the Islamic militant organization Hamas and is home to some 2 million Palestinians. region closer to total war.
An explosion may be heard in Gaza City, where smoke escaped from the seventh floor of a tall building on Friday afternoon.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said seven other people were killed, in addition to a 5-year-old girl, and at least 40 were injured. Islamic Jihad said a Gaza commander, Taiseer al-Jabari, was among the dead.
The Israeli military said it was targeting Islamic Jihad in an operation dubbed “Breaking Dawn. “He also announced a “special situation” on the front of the house, with schools closed and limits on other activities in communities within 80 kilometers (50 miles) of the border.
Israel had closed roads around Gaza earlier this week and sent reinforcements to the border as it prepared for a revenge attack following the arrest of the Islamic Jihad leader in the occupied West Bank on Monday. A teenage member of the organization was killed in a shootout between Israeli troops. and Palestinian militants.
Israel and Hamas have fought four wars and several small skirmishes in the 15 years since the militant organization gained strength in the coastal strip from rival Palestinian forces. The most recent war took place in May 2021, and tensions soared earlier this year after a wave. of attacks inside Israel, near-daily military operations in the West Bank, and tensions at a holy site in Jerusalem.
Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhalah, speaking to Iran’s al-Mayadeen TV channel, said: “We are starting the fight, and Palestinian resistance fighters will have to unite to confront this aggression. “lines” in the confrontation and blamed the violence on Israel.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said that “the Israeli enemy, who unleashed the escalation against Gaza and committed a new crime, will have to pay the price and assume full duty for it. “
Islamic Jihad is smaller than Hamas, but largely stores its ideology. Both teams oppose Israel’s lifestyle and have carried out dozens of fatal attacks over the years, adding rocket fire into southern Israel. The degree of Hamas’s overcoming in Islamic Jihad is unclear, and Israel holds Hamas guilty of all the attacks emanating from Gaza.
On Friday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited communities near Gaza and said the government was preparing “actions that will put this region at risk,” without elaborating.
“We will function with internal resilience and external strength to repair life in southern Israel,” he said. “We are not looking for conflicts, but we will not hesitate to protect our citizens, if necessary.
Earlier on Friday, a few hundred Israelis demonstrated friday near the Gaza Strip to demand the return of a captive and the remains of two Israeli infantrymen held by Hamas.
The protesters were led through the circle of relatives of Hadar Goldin, who, along with Oron Shaul, was killed in the 2014 Gaza war. Hamas still has his remains, as well as two Israeli civilians who have gone missing in Gaza and are believed who are mentally ill, hoping to exchange them for some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.
Protesters crossed two police checkpoints on a road near Gaza’s heavily guarded border before stopping at a third.
They made a great signal to call for the removal of the remains of the infantrymen and Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli of Ethiopian descent in his early twenties or early thirties. Mengistu’s family participated in the protest.
In June, Hamas released a rare video showing himself captive, Hisham al-Sayid, an Arab citizen of Israel, in a hospital bed wearing an oxygen mask and an intravenous drip. He said his physical condition had recently deteriorated. Journalists covering the protest heard no mention. of al-Sayid.
Israel and Egypt maintained a strict blockade on the territory during this period. Israel says the closure is mandatory to prevent Hamas from bolstering its military capabilities, while critics say the policy amounts to collective punishment of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinian residents.
Israel says there can be no major movement to lift the blockade until the remains of infantrymen and captive civilians are released. Israel and Hamas have held many rounds of Egyptian-mediated talks on an imaginable exchange.
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