Air attack against Israel: two rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv

The Israeli army reported Thursday that two rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv, where the sirens sounded in the Gush Dan region.

Although the attacks of the Palestinian enclave on Israeli soil are constant, it is not a minor event this Thursday, because is This is the first time since the war of 2014 that the city of Tel Aviv is under attack.

"Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, warning systems worked as required, no interception was carried out by anti-aircraft systems, no damage or injury was found. 39, was reported, no special instruction for the front of the civilian house, "badured the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The Israeli army has released a video of the time when the alarm sounded in Tel Aviv

Neighbors of the region, quoted by Israel weather, they claim to have heard two explosions.

The newspaper The Jerusalem Post reports, for its part, that initial reports indicate that the rockets fired would have been Fajr-5, and blame the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second largest terrorist group in Gaza after Hamas. However, this information has not yet been officially confirmed. Even the extremist group has denied these accusations.

So the sirens sounded in Tel Aviv

The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – also Minister of Defense –will hold an emergency meeting at the ministry's headquarters in Tel Aviv.

The Mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai, as well as the authorities of other cities in the region, ordered to open all public bomb shelters in the city and the Central Command of the Interior of the Army asked the citizens of the region to continue their routine.

Emergency services, on the other hand, have had to treat several people for anxiety attacks, after the rocket explosions, which were heard with great clarity in the south of the city.

In Gaza, the Palestinian media claim that the terrorist leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniye, and senior officials of the jihadist movement they evacuate the facilities and the headquarters, as well as their homes and offices, before the possibility of an Israeli retaliatory attack that same night.

The first time the Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched an aerial attack on Gaza since Tel Aviv, it was in 2012, when He fired an Iranian-made missile.

In October 2018, Hamas launched a rocket that landed off Tel Aviv and another hit the city of Beersheba in the south of the country. In response to this aggression, Israel attacked 20 targets in Gaza.

Netanyahu's warning

Last Sunday, the Prime Minister badured that Israel would not hesitate to launch "a large-scale operation" if this is caused by Hamas terrorists.

"We will do all that is necessary to restore peace and tranquility in the border communities of Gaza and the south," he warned.

Netanyahu has issued the warning after a series of Gaza attacks on Israeli soil in the border area, where clashes usually take place between Palestinians and Israeli security forces.

Extremists often launch explosives and incendiary balloons.