Israeli army launches airstrikes in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons launched from the coastal enclave

WAFA, the official Palestinian Information Company additionally reported the airstrikes in Khan Younis and mentioned “materials” injury occurred. The information company additionally reported on one other web site south of Gaza Metropolis being focused and mentioned there have been no casualties from each incidents.

Thirty-three Palestinian protesters have been injured, together with by stun grenade, rubber bullets and dwell hearth, with six evacuated to hospital, following clashes with Israeli safety forces round east Jerusalem, the Palestinian Purple Crescent Society mentioned.

The march was seen as the primary main check for Israel’s new authorities, led by right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Previously, Bennett had pushed former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take a more durable stance towards Hamas and the launching of incendiary balloons in line with Israeli media.

After the Israeli airstrikes, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Kassem mentioned on Twitter, “The Zionist bombing of the Gaza Strip is a failed try to cease our individuals’s solidarity and resistance with the Holy Metropolis, and to cowl up the unprecedented state of confusion for the Zionist institution in organizing the so-called ‘flag-march.’ “

Hamas and different militant teams in Gaza didn’t instantly reply with rocket hearth into Israel, however the scenario alongside the Israel-Gaza border stays extraordinarily tense, and the potential of an imminent and critical escalation can’t be dominated out.

Eleven days of struggle

Wednesday’s airstrikes come a month after the worst violence in years between Israel and Hamas.

Over 11 days from Could 10, the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) carried out a devastating aerial bombardment of Gaza, whereas the Palestinian militant group Hamas fired hundreds of rockets into Israel.

The current combating between Israel and Hamas erupted after weeks of pressure in Jerusalem, the place a gaggle of Palestinian households confronted eviction from their houses in East Jerusalem in favor of Jewish nationalists.

As well as, through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, there have been a sequence of incidents which Palestinians noticed as extremely provocative, together with the closing of a well-liked assembly place close to the Previous Metropolis, and the doorway of Israeli police into the Al Aqsa mosque on quite a few events. There have been common clashes in and across the mosque compound throughout which police fired stun grenades and rubber coated bullets whereas Palestinians threw stones.

A whole bunch of Palestinians and a few Israeli law enforcement officials have been injured within the unrest.