On the evening of April 4, Israeli security forces attacked a mosque in Al-Aqsa, after which nine rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Air Force returned fire.
A further aggravation between Israel and Palestine occurred after the evening of Tuesday, April 4, security forces interrupted in the prayer hall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and attacked Palestinians with tear gas, sound bombs and rubber bullets. More than 350 people were arrested. By versions Israeli police, there was a group of people in the mosque who were going to riot.
After that, nine rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, some of them intercepted, IDF spokesman Avia Adraei said on Twitter. Five missiles targeted the area of Sderot (a city in southern Israel), four of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Four more rockets were fired at the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip – all munitions fell in open areas and “were not intercepted in accordance with established policy”, Adraei said.
Israel time Remarks that a 30-year-old man was injured in the Palestinian bombardment.
According to an IDF spokesman, the Israeli Air Force (AAF) responded by striking two sites of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip “which were engaged in the production of weapons”. In addition, warplanes bombed the Hamas training complex, where the organization trained its operatives, and tanks attacked military installations in the border areas of the Gaza Strip, Adraei said.
“Hamas is responsible for what is happening in the Gaza Strip and will pay the price for violating the security of the State of Israel,” he said.
The Palestinian agency WAFA, in turn, complaints that the Israeli Air Force fired at unnamed “objects” in the Gaza Strip and the Nusseirat refugee camp, and that the Israeli fleet hit fishing boats off the coast. No casualties were reported.
How Remarks The Jerusalem Post, at the time of the Israeli attack, Palestinian forces fired surface-to-air missiles at one of the Israeli planes.