The Israeli army bombed, Wednesday morning, September 16, sites in the Gaza Strip in the wake of rocket fire towards the Jewish state, according to Palestinian security sources.
The first rockets were fired Tuesday evening towards Israel on the occasion of the signing, in Washington, of agreements to normalize relations between the Hebrew state and two Arab countries, followed Wednesday morning by new fire and Israeli retaliatory strikes , according to these sources.
Wednesday morning, before dawn, sirens sounded in a string of Israeli towns bordering the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave of two million inhabitants under Hamas control and under Israeli blockade, according to the Israeli army.
“There is currently a rocket barrage towards southern Israel”, the Israeli army announced on its Twitter account on Wednesday morning, then reporting 13 rockets fired from Gaza, eight of which were intercepted.
The shots coincide with the ceremony at the White House
According to the IDF, two rockets were fired Tuesday from Gaza into Israel, one of which was intercepted by the Israeli missile shield. The second rocket hit the city of Ashdod, located between Gaza and the Tel Aviv metropolis, according to local rescue services, which reported at least two minor injuries.
These shots coincided with the signing ceremony at the White House of the agreements to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. In Washington, US President Donald Trump spoke of “A new Middle East” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the agreements could “To end the Israeli-Arab conflict”.
But Islamic Jihad, the second armed group in the Gaza Strip, after Hamas, indicated after the shooting on Tuesday that these agreements “Unjust” were going “Push” the “Resistance forces to continue jihad”.
“There will be no peace, security or stability for anyone in the region without the end of the occupation and respect for the full rights of the Palestinian people”, said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in power in the occupied West Bank, a territory separated from Gaza.
