On May 12, 2023, a rocket was launched from Gaza towards Israel.
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Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip resumed firing rockets into Israel early Saturday after Israeli aircraft bombed Islamic Jihad targets inside the enclave overnight, as fighting entered its fifth day.
Egypt has been trying to mediate a ceasefire in the conflict, which has so far killed at least 33 Palestinians and one Israeli.
Violence The Israeli-Palestinian violence, which has dragged on for more than a year, has killed more than 140 Palestinians and at least 19 Israelis and foreigners since January.
The military said it struck an Islamic Jihad command center and rocket launchers in the pre-dawn operation. The grainy black-and-white aerial footage it released showed the explosion and smoke rising from where it was bombed.
Hours later, Gaza militants fired rockets and sounded sirens, forcing Israelis in border communities to run to bomb shelters. No casualties were reported.
Six senior Islamic Jihad commanders have been killed since Tuesday, when the Israeli army launched a campaign against the group it said was planning an attack.
Gaza’s largest militant group, Islamic Jihad, has fired nearly 1,000 rockets, some deep into Israel, after the ruling Islamist group Hamas. A woman was killed when a rocket hit an apartment on the outskirts of Tel Aviv on Thursday.
At least four women and six children have died in the densely populated Gaza Strip, an impoverished coastal region that has been blocked by Israel and Egypt since 2007. Israel says four Palestinians were killed by unfired rockets in the Gaza Strip, a claim denied by Islamic Jihad.
Islamic Jihad refuses to coexist with Israel, preaching its destruction.
A senior minister in Israel’s religious nationalist government ruled out any state the Palestinians would seek in territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.