Israel bombed the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian attack in Tel Aviv

At nightfall Palestinian movement Hamas and other groups in Gaza announced that a truce Egyptian mediation has come into force and will be respected if Israel does, although the information is not confirmed by the Israeli authorities.

Israel has opened bomb shelters in major cities and civil defense authorities have suspended sporting events and public transport throughout the south of the country.

The sirens announced that air strikes sounded in southern Israel at dusk and soon after, the local media reported that at least 10 rockets had fallen on the country's territory, without giving details.

Israel began with its retaliatory attacks almost at the same time as its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was received in Washington for the American president, Donald Trump.

Speaking to the White House, Netanyahu said that Israel "reacted strongly to this senseless aggression."

The Prime Minister announced that he was returning to Israel after the meeting with Trump and that he had canceled his participation tomorrow at the annual conference of the US-Israeli forum Aipac.

The violence comes at a very sensitive moment for Israel, which will hold elections on 9 April.

Various Israeli bombing shook the coastal region, including one who destroyed the office of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza, local sources said and confirmed the Israeli army.

The aviation also bombed a three-story building completely demolished and that the army claims that it was functioning as a Hamas intelligence center.

In addition, fighter planes also destroyed another five-story building used by the Palestinian group's military arm, CNN reported.

Gaza's health ministry said seven Palestinians were wounded during the attacks.

About 12 hours earlier, a rocket from Gaza hit a house in Israel after an unusually long trajectory.

The Israeli army said the rocket was fired by Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza, in the Rafah region.

An unidentified Hamas official told Ma that the group was not behind the rocket and had estimated that it could have been fired "by mistake".

The hospital where the injured were taken away said that seven Israelis had been slightly injured by burns or shrapnel, including three children.

Israel warned against a firm response and announced the dispatch of two more brigades and several armored vehicles to Gazaas well as an appeal to a limited number of Reservists.

Israeli roads near the Gaza Strip have been closed and activities in the farming communities in the region have been halted.

Israel has also closed the transit of people and goods to the Gaza blockade and reduced the area of ​​the Mediterranean in which it allows fishing for Palestinian fishermen, the army said in a statement.

The house hit by the rocket was in the community of Mishmeret, about 20 kilometers north of Tel Aviv, he told the police.

The projectile flew about 120 kilometers from Rafah before striking.

Rocket attacks from Gaza at such a distance are very rare.

The rise comes after weeks of increasing tension.

Israel has launched three offensives against Hamas in Gaza since 2008 and, according to badysts, Netanyahu has wanted to avoid another with unpredictable effects, just before the elections.

But the prime minister faces an election challenge from a center alliance led by former army chief Benny Gantz, and may have been forced to react, according to badysts. .

On his Twitter account, Gantz wondered today, referring to several corruption cases against Netanyahu, whether the prime minister "would finally focus on the security of Israel's citizens instead of solving their legal problems."