Israeli retaliation after a rain of Gaza missiles: a Palestinian baby dies and his mother – 04/05/2019

A baby a little over a year old and his mother died this Saturday in the Gaza strip by Israeli retaliatory bombings in response to the launching of a hundred rockets from the Palestinian territories against Israel in the early hours of the morning, informed the Palestinian Ministry of Health by a day of increasing tension. Another young Palestinian had died earlier.

Seba Abu Arar, aged one year and two months, died in a bomb attack. Her mother, who was pregnant, died a few hours later from serious injuries that she had suffered during an air strike against a military infrastructure near her home in the east of the city from Gaza. Four other Palestinians were wounded in the same attack.

A hundred rockets were fired Saturday morning from the Gaza Strip. In retaliation, Israel carried out air strikes and tank fire against extremist Hamas group positions in the Palestinian enclave, the army said.

In the afternoon follow-up of rocket fire from Gaza that it had started in the morning and that it had triggered anti-aircraft alarms in many Israeli communities on the outskirts of the coastal enclave under blockade, but also in the central region of Japan. ;Israel.

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The Israeli army said in the morning that the Palestinians fired 90 rockets from the Gaza Strip and that dozens of them had been intercepted by the Israeli missile defense system. But in the afternoon, this amount doubled.

A woman in her fifties was seriously injured by the impact of a rocket in Israel and a man of the same age was taken to hospital with wounds caused by shrapnel. .

The Israeli authorities asked the population to follow the security instructions, to go to the shelters if they heard the alarms and to stay in safe places.

The Israeli police has reinforced its presence in the southern zone and the army "has strengthened its capabilities," said army spokesman Colonel Jonathan Conricus, at a conference of telephone press.

Israel continued in the afternoon with reprisal bombings, They hit at least 30 military targets of Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad militias, the army said in a statement.

The morning, a Palestinian Hamas militant had died during reprisal attacks and six others were injured.

Islamic Jihad, another Islamic fundamentalist group allied with Hamas, warned with the achievement of important strategic goals in Israel if the Israeli air force does not stop the attacks in Gaza.

In a statement, the jihad warned that it could attack the Dimona nuclear power plant, Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv and the ports of Ashdod and Haifa. According to the Israeli military radio, flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport have already been diverted north over the city of Natanya.

Closing borders

Israel has closed its borders with Gaza, the Eretz pedestrian crossing and Kerem Shalom goods transport, after the rain of rockets launched from Gaza.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he would meet the country's security officials, said one of his spokesmen.

This climb, the largest in several weeks, comes after violent demonstrations on Friday on the Gaza border.

Four Palestinians, including two members of Hamas' armed wing, were killed on Friday during an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, after two Israeli soldiers were wounded during clashes in the border area.

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The Islamist Hamas movement, in power in the Gaza Strip, promised Friday to react to "the Israeli aggression".

Israel and Hamas have clashed in three wars since 2008 and, when tension rises between the two sides, fears a fourth conflict.

At the end of March, under the auspices of Egypt and the United Nations, a ceasefire has been negotiated, announced by Hamas but never confirmed by Israel. This helped maintain relative calm in the Israeli parliamentary elections on 9 April.

But on Tuesday, Israel cut off the authorized fishing zone off the Gaza coast after Palestinian militants launched a rocket on its territory.

The rocket fell in the Mediterranean. The Israeli army has accused Islamic Jihad, another fundamentalist group allied with Hamas.

A Hamas delegation led by its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, left the enclave for Cairo Thursday to discuss with the Egyptian authorities ways to preserve the truce.

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In recent months, Israel has agreed that Qatar will provide multi-million dollar aid to Gaza to pay salaries and finance the purchase of fuel, which would face a shortage of electricity.

Since March 2018, Palestinians demonstrate at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel against the blockade of the enclave and for the return of Palestinian refugees expelled or to leave their lands after the creation of Israel in 1948.

At least 270 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the mobilization, at demonstrations or during Israeli reprisal attacks. On the Israeli side, two soldiers died.

The organizers of the demonstrations and Hamas badure that the movement of the "Great march of the return" is independent. Israel, on the other hand, accuses Hamas of orchestrating these demonstrations.

Source: agencies