GAZA STRIP, Gaza, Aug. 27 (UPI) — The Israeli Air Force (IDF) attacked a Hamas site in the Gaza Strip Thursday in retaliation to rocket fired from there on Israeli soil, causing no damage.
The IDF dispatched an airplane to strike a Hamas weapons factory in the Gaza Strip, claiming that it attributes any attacks that come from the Gaza Strip to the militant group Hamas. However, it is unlikely that Hamas is responsible since it has refrained from firing at Israel since a ceasefire in 2014. More likely at fault are smaller groups affected by Hamas’ reign.
On Wednesday night, a rocket from Gaza exploded in an open area in Israel, near the Eshkol Regional Council.
On August 7, three rockets from Gaza were also fired towards Israel. Two of these exploded on the Strip while a third exploded near Israel’s border with Gaza.
However, a Salafi jihadist group from Gaza named “The Grandsons of the Companions of the Prophet” took the blame for the attack, claiming it was their first retaliation to Jewish attacks. The IDF fired back after this attack and said that Hamas still bears the responsibility for the offensive. The strike wounded four Palestinians, one of them seriously.
A week prior to this, two Gaza rockets hit Israel. No casualties were reported. The rockets exploded near the country’s northern border with Gaza.
The day prior, a 17-year-old Palestinian male, Mohammed Hamed Almasri, was killed by Israeli soldiers after getting close to a border fence during a protest of an arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma. Almasri sustained serious wounds to the torso before perishing in a Gaza hospital.
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