Palestinian militants have already fired more than 400 rockets at Israel which has killed several Israelis according to reports.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas said it had fired 137 rockets at Israel’s cities of Ashkelon and nearby Ashdod in the space of five minutes, and warned it had “many surprises” prepared if the fighting continued.
At least 95 people received treatment in Israeli hospitals as a result of the attacks. Two women, one in her 60s and the other in her 80s, were killed in a rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
The Israeli military and the Shin Bet security agency announced that they had killed the head of Islamic Jihad group’s special rocket unit, Samah Abed al-Mamlouk.
Islamic Jihad confirmed the deaths of Mamlouk and two other senior figures in a strike on a building in central Gaza City.
Also, the commander of a Hamas anti-tank missile unit was reportedly killed as the Israeli military launched air strikes to neutralize Hamas’ rocket-launching capabilities in northern Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the main militant group, Hamas, had “crossed a red line” by firing rockets towards Jerusalem for the first time in years.
It followed mounting Palestinian anger over the threatened eviction of Palestinian families from homes in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers.
With Palestinians and Israeli police clashing at the Holy Hill in Old Jerusalem that is revered by both Muslims, who call it the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), and Jews, for whom it is known as the Temple Mount.
Hamas had demanded Israel remove police from there and also from the Arab district in East Jerusalem where Palestinian families face eviction by Jewish settlers. Hamas launched rockets when its ultimatum went unheeded.
The international community has urged both sides to end the escalation, which follows days of violent rioting in the Holy City Jerusalem at the Temple Mount.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas must end the rocket attacks on Israel “immediately”, and that “all sides need to de-escalate.”
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the violence in Jerusalem and Gaza “must stop” and called for “an immediate de-escalation on all sides, and end to targeting of civilian populations.”
A spokesman for the EU’s foreign policy said the upsurge in violence “needs to stop immediately” and warned that rocket-fire targeting Israeli civilians “is totally unacceptable and feeds escalatory dynamics.”
The UN human rights office said it was “deeply concerned” by the escalation and condemned “all incitement to violence and ethnic division and provocations.”
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