Tension rises between Israel and Palestine: more than 200 missiles and intense bombings kill four people

Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip unleashed a new hotbed of tension on Saturday firing more than 200 missiles in a few hours against Israel, which responded by bombarding military targets that killed four Palestinians.

Since morning, about two hundred rockets have been launched from the Palestinian enclave to the southern and central regions of Israel. but several dozens were intercepted by the local missile defense system.

In response to the attack, the army of the air underlined about thirty positions of Hamas and its ally, Islamic Jihadwhile several tanks attacked 120 military positions of Islamist movements.

In Gaza, a pregnant woman and her 14-month-old baby died when Israelis bombed a military center near their home. In the morning, one militiaman was killed in another attack, and then a 25-year-old Palestinian was killed in another bombing while driving a motorbike in northern Gaza.

As, 50-year-old Israeli woman seriously injured by shrapnel at Kyriat Gat, like a man of the same age but in Ashkelon.

In addition to the cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon, regular targets firing from Gaza for their proximity to the Palestinian enclave, missiles have been detected with targets in the center of the country, such as Modi & # 39; in and Rehovot.

For these acts of war, Israel has announced the closure of border crossing points with Gaza and banned fishing in the maritime area of ​​the enclave, led by Hamas.

These incidents they occurred as a revenge for what happened 24 hours beforewhen, on the last day of the Palestinian protests, four of its citizens died after an airstrike, which was in retaliation for shooting and wounding two Israeli soldiers.

Israel and Hamas have clashed in three wars since 2008, and the tension rises between the two sides, which makes fear a fourth conflict. In this context, at the end of March (and under the auspices of Egypt and the UN), a ceasefire was negotiated, announced by Hamas but never confirmed by Israel. This allowed to maintain relative tranquility during the Israeli legislative elections of April 9.

However, the situation has been degraded this week with the return of Palestinian missiles and incendiary balloons, as well as Israeli retaliation.

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

At least 270 Palestinians have died since the beginning of the mobilizationduring demonstrations or 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 Return is independent. Israel, on the other hand, accuses Hamas of orchestrating these demonstrations.