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3,150 Rockets Were Fired From Gaza In Past Week - Israel

3,150 Rockets Were Fired From Gaza In Past Week – Israel

May 18, 2021 3:30 am

A week after the shelling began, militants have fired some 3,150 rockets from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, officials of the Israeli army have revealed.

The army claimed that about 460 of the rockets never made it across the border and went down in Gaza territory.

The Iron Dome missile defence system had an interception rate of about 90 percent, it disclosed.

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By comparison, a total of 4,481 rockets were fired at Israel during the entire 51-day Gaza war in 2014.

There were initially no current figures on the …

Israeli Air Strike Levels Gaza Building Hosting AP,

Israeli Air Strike Levels Gaza Building Hosting AP, Jazeera

May 16, 2021 1:54 am

An Israeli airstrike on Saturday demolished the 13-floor building housing Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and American news agency – The Associated Press in the Gaza Strip, Africa Daily News, New York has learnt.

Al Jazeera said in a tweet on Saturday said Israel ‘destroyed Jala Tower in the Gaza Strip, which contains the Al Jazeera and other international press offices’. 

Al Jazeera broadcast footage showing the building collapsing to the ground after the Israeli airstrike, sending up a huge mushroom cloud of dust and debris.

Jawad Mehdi, the owner of the Jala Tower, said an Israeli intelligence officer warned him …

Israeli army intercepts unmanned drone in Gaza

Israeli army intercepts unmanned drone in Gaza

July 8, 2019 10:24 am

Israeli army said on Monday that its troops intercepted a drone after it crossed the border from the Gaza Strip.

“Troops identified an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that crossed from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory,“ a military spokesperson said in a statement.

“In response, the troops downed the UAV and took it in for examination,’’ it added.

The unusual incident came amid tensions between Israel and Hamas movement which runs Gaza, the coastal enclave.

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Israel and Hamas have reportedly reached initial understandings as part of Egypt’s efforts to broker a …

Israeli military: New airstrikes in Gaza

March 27, 2019 11:01 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is “prepared to do a lot more” after overnight Israeli strikes hit Hamas targets in Gaza, but by sunset on Tuesday an uneasy calm seemed to be holding, following the sharpest escalation in violence since the beginning of the year.

The militant Hamas group — which Israel blamed for triggering the latest round of hostilities by firing a rocket that hit a house north of Tel Aviv in the early hours of Monday morning — first announced that a ceasefire had been agreed late Monday, but renewed rocket fire from Gaza into Israel,
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