Israeli fighter jets striking Gaza after massive mortar fire from the strip – IDF (VIDEOS, LIVE)
RT.com
12 Nov, 2018
Israeli fighter jets have pounded the Gaza strip, after mortar fire from inside the Palestinian-controlled strip hit a bus in the Israeli side of the border, the Israel Defense Forces have said.
Two Palestinians have been killed, Gaza’s health ministry confirmed.
The airstrikes are the latest escalation in several days of reciprocal attacks between Israel and the Palestinian territories. Earlier on Monday, a barrage of mortar fire from Gaza hit an Israeli bus, wounding at least one person, Reuters reported.
Video from the scene showed Israel’s Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepting some of the incoming projectiles.
That attack was itself a response to an Israeli special forces raid in the Gaza strip on Sunday night that saw at least two Hamas commanders and four other Palestinians killed. One Israeli soldier was also killed, and another wounded. Israeli warplanes reportedly lobbed missiles at the area after the raid, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut his visit to Paris short to return, in light of the “security incidents.”
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