Israel bombs Gaza, positions troops after rocket attack near Tel Aviv
GAZA/JERUSALEM - Israel mounted air strikes on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza and deployed extra troops to the border on Monday in response to the longest-range Hamas rocket attack to cause casualties in years.
Monday’s violence began when seven Israelis were wounded near Tel Aviv by a morning rocket attack. The Gaza health ministry said five Palestinians were later wounded by a wave of retaliatory strikes.In one Gaza neighborhood, people rushed to by bread in anticipation of a long escalation. The office of the Islamist movement’s leader Ismail Haniyeh was one of the initial targets hit, although he was likely to have been evacuated in advance.
“Israel will not tolerate this. I will not tolerate this,” Netanyahu said. “And as we speak...Israel is responding forcefully to this wanton aggression.” Israel has waged three wars on Gaza since Hamas took control of the territory in 2007. Israeli air strikes in retaliation for rockets from Gaza are a frequent occurrence, but Israel’s swift mobilization of extra troops to the border area was unusual.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged restraint from both sides and said that, together with Egypt, the United Nations was trying to help defuse the situation.Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said it treated seven people after the morning missile strike, including an infant, a 3-year-old boy, a 12-year-old girl and a 60-year-old woman suffering from blast injuries, burns and shrapnel wounds.
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