On Wednesday, sirens sounded as far as the commercial capital Tel Aviv, 60 km north of Gaza.Īs the firing continued in Gaza, the military said it had arrested 25 people in the occupied West Bank associated with Islamic Jihad. Israeli authorities estimated that between 30% and 60% of communities around Gaza have evacuated as a precaution. Israel has kept crossings for the movement of people and goods closed since Tuesday. " Once again Israel tries to escape its responsibility for the killing of civilians through fabrications and lies," faction spokesman Dawoud Shehab said. Israel's military said over 100 rockets - many of them improvised - had fallen short, killing four Palestinians, including a ten-year-old girl. " People have no clue what will happen next, whether there will be a truce or the war will continue."Īt least 80 people were wounded in the air strikes that destroyed five buildings and damaged more than 300 apartments, said Salama Marouf, chairman of the media office for Hamas, the group that rules the densely populated coastal territory. " We can't sleep at night because we worry about bombardment," said Mohammad Abu el-Subbah, 24, outside a bakery in Gaza City. Hagari declined to be drawn on the faction's remaining arsenal.īoth in blockaded Gaza, where residents have been experiencing decades of a worsening humanitarian crisis, and in surrounding Israeli towns, schools and businesses remained shut. Israel appeared to be hoping that Islamic Jihad, depleted of rockets and commanders, would halt hostilities unilaterally. " If and when we enter a ceasefire, it won't be with preconditions." " We have resumed the 'elimination' policy - big time," Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told Channel 12 TV. Among terms for a truce, it wants an end to Israeli strikes against its leaders.
Islamic Jihad spurns coexistence with Israel and preaches its destruction. Meeting Jordanian, French and German counterparts in Berlin, Shoukry urged " peace-sponsoring countries to intervene and stop the attacks" and said Israel must " stop the unilateral measures that aim to destroy the future of the Palestinian state". " Egypt's efforts to calm things down and resume the political process have not yet borne fruit," Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told reporters. Medics said an elderly man was killed, the first person killed in Israel in the latest round of fighting, and five other people were wounded.Īfter more than a year of resurgent Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and at least nineteen Israelis and foreigners since January 2023, the latest escalation drew international calls for a ceasefire.īut Cairo, which hosted senior Islamic Jihad official Mohammad al-Hindi for talks, was circumspect about prospects. While Iron Dome and David's Sling interceptors have shot down 96% of rockets engaged, according to the military, one hit a residential building in Rehovot on Thursday. Some 1.5 million Israelis - 16% of the population - have been ordered to shelters, military spokesperson Rear-Admiral Daniel Hagari said. The hundreds of rockets launched have set off sirens as far north as Tel Aviv.
Our revenge continues," it said in a communique. "We will not retreat and the assassinations will only make us stronger. Four women and six children have also died.īut Islamic Jihad, the second-biggest armed group in Gaza after the ruling Hamas Islamists, kept up volleys of rockets. The identities of two men killed elsewhere were not immediately clear. Two gunmen from a splinter group died in a separate strike on Thursday. The deaths of Ali Ghali and Ahmed Abu Daqqa brought to five the number of senior figures from Iranian-sponsored Islamic Jihad killed since Israel began striking Gaza early on Tuesday. "Whoever comes to harm us - his blood is forfeit." " We are at the height of a campaign, both offensive and defensive," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a videotaped statement issued during a visit to an air base. Īmid mediation efforts by Egypt, neither side seemed ready to douse the worst flare-up since August 2022, now in its third day. GAZA/JERUSALEM, Israel (Reuters) - Israel killed the head of Islamic Jihad's rocket force and his deputy, pressing an operation that has cost 30 lives in Gaza including women and children, while Palestinian cross-border rocket salvoes inflicted a first fatality in Israel on Thursday. Rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel, in Gaza,
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