Israel has yesterday new attacks on the Gaza strip, in retaliation for rockets from the Palestinian territory into Israel are shot. “Our air force has just different terreurdoelwitten of Hamas in Gaza attacked”, says the Israeli army in a tweet. Syria has in the meantime, the Security council requested a spoedzitting to organize about the israeli-annexed golan heights. That report diplomatic sources.
In the south of Israel, went there yesterday evening alarms to warn of air raids. The police said that a rocket from Gaza is fired, was intercepted by the missile defence system Iron Dome. Palestinian militants broke a Egypt-brokered truce by balloons with explosives across the border to fly. That report Israeli media.
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The night before there were already shelling back and forth. The tensions between Israel and Hamas, the Gaza strip and it controls since 2007, blaze high on two weeks before the parliamentary elections in Israel. The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will both of the left and of the right of criticism because he is too lax would be compared to Hamas.
Netanyahu slashed Monday a visit to the United States with a few hours in to the situation in the country of close follow-up. During this visit, signed Trump a declaration in which he the sovereignty of Israel over the golan heights formally acknowledge. Israel annexed the area in 1981, but, according to the international law the Syrian territory that Israel occupied.
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Syria has, according to diplomatic sources, meanwhile, the Security council requested a spoedzitting to organize on the golan heights. France, since march, the president of the Security council, should now be a date setting for the meeting.
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