to the North of Tel Aviv, is taken on Monday morning, according to Israeli information, a rocket. Seven people were injured and a house gone up in flames, informed the police and rescue forces.
According to the military, a missile from the Palestinian-controlled Gaza strip was fired. From the Palestinian side, the absence of any opinion was initially.
In the affected area North of Tel Aviv, a rocket alarm had been triggered, reported the left-liberal newspaper “Haaretz”. The Israeli army announced that the defense system “Iron Dome” was not activated at the time of the attack. Residents reported according to the newspaper of explosions.
According to the rescue service, Magen David Adom also has three children – a Baby were among the injured, a three year old toddler and a twelve year old. A 60-year-old and a 30-year-old woman had been violated, among other things, by Rocket fragments. In addition, some people were treated for shock. The beschossene house went up in flames. Police cordoned off the area.
Israel announces retaliation
As a reaction to the rather unusual rocket fire on densely-populated territory of Israel from the Gaza strip is expected to be an Israeli counter-attack. A spokesman for the defense Ministry said on the Radio that is still unknown is who exactly shot down the rocket, Hamas, or a radical splinter group.
Israel was the rule, that the Hamas party carry some of the responsibility because they in the Gaza strip, Mr. Accordingly, there will be a counter-attack on the institutions of Hamas.
Palestinian Militants fire often flares in the border area of the Gaza strip. However, it is unusual that a bullet strikes as far away from the coastal strip. First investigations showed that the missile was fired from the southern part of the Gaza strip – about 100 kilometers away from the municipality of Mishmeret where you hit.
The incident shows that the situation in the run-up to the Israeli election on may 9. April is tense. 14. March had been the first Palestinian rocket attack on the coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv since Gaza war of 2014. Then Israel’s air force had bombed some 100 targets in the Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean sea.
Netanyahu in Trump
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu will be received on Monday evening by US President Donald Trump in the White house. However, Netanyahu will shorten his US trip.
“It was a vicious attack on the state of Israel, and we will respond strongly,” Netanyahu said on Monday, according to his office.
“Given the security, political incidents, I decided my visit to the United States to shorten.” He wanted to travel directly to a Meeting with US President Donald Trump, “to guide our actions”. (Dec/sda)
Created: 25.03.2019, 08:56 PM
