Israel typically launches airstrikes in response to rocket fire, increasing the likelihood of additional escalation.
Digital Desk: Gaza was targeted by Israeli airstrikes overnight on Thursday. The Israeli military confirmed the reports, claiming that it attacked Gaza after sirens alerting Israeli communities nearby to the threat of incoming rocket fire sounded once more.
This follows militant rocket fire into southern Israel on Wednesday, which sparked alarms and heightened tensions under the nation's new ultranationalist government.
According to the military, the rocket was intercepted from the Gaza Strip.
Israel typically launches airstrikes in response to rocket fire, increasing the likelihood of additional escalation.
Local residents reported hearing explosions.
The only reported injury, according to Israel's emergency agency, was suffered by a 50-year-old lady who tripped and fell while fleeing to a shelter.
Following threats from Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group against Israel over the national security minister Itamar Ben-tough Gvir's approach, which has vowed harsh treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, action in Israel's skies on Wednesday.
Many Palestinians view prisoners as heroes for the Palestinian cause, from the occupied West Bank to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Israeli-Palestinian violence has spiked in recent days as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited with a call for calm.
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