A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv on Friday landed in the sea, a police spokesman said. “The rocket landed off the shores of Tel Aviv,” the spokesman said after air raid sirens sounded in Israel’s commercial centre and an explosion was heard.
Since Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense on Wednesday, fighting around the Israel-Gaza border has been intense. The death toll stands at three on the Israeli side and 13 on the Palestinian side. A few minutes a rocket wounded ago three Israeli soldiers. In the last 24 hours, 138 rockets from Gaza has struck Israel…
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed close to Tel Aviv on Thursday, in the first attack on Israel’s biggest city in 20 years, raising the stakes in a military showdown between Israel and the Palestinians that is moving towards all-out war. Earlier, a Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip,…
Israel struck three targets in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday and warned an on-going crisis with Palestinian militants had not been resolved, despite a marked decrease in rocket-fire from the territory. The Israeli military said its warplanes successfully hit a weapons storage facility in central Gaza and two rocket launching sites…
Center-right commentator Shalom Yerushalmi at Maariv argues that the rockets from Gaza seem likely to turn the upcoming Israeli elections once again into a referendum on who has bigger guns, meaning a Likud reelection. Sadly, he says, that would again bury the election that seemed to be shaping up, the one that Israel deserves, the…
Dozens of rockets launched by militants in Gaza have pounded down on southern Israel today, wounding three Israeli civilians. The round of violence began last night when Gazans launched an anti-tank missile which scored a direct hit, wounding four Israeli soldiers — an act that was followed by Israeli airstrikes on Palestinian targets in Gaza….
At least 50 rockets fired from Gaza have struck Israel since Saturday night, according to the military and Israeli news reports. A factory in Sderot sustained a direct hit Sunday morning and several buildings and two cars in the Sha’ar Hanegev municipality were also damaged in attacks. At least three Israelis have been wounded. The…
Some 20 rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel on Sunday night and Monday morning. The rockets landed in unpopulated areas and did not cause any injury or damage. In response, Israel’s Air Force early on Monday morning targeted what the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement were a rocket launching site and a…
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