A house to the North-East of the Israeli coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv has been hit on Monday, according to police information, directly by a missile. In the process, including children, were injured in the locality mixing Meret, according to paramedics seven people. An army spokeswoman in Tel Aviv confirmed that they had detected a missile launch from the Gaza strip. In the Israeli community settlement, there had been previously a rocket fire alarm.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a “powerful” response. “Against the state of Israel is a crime perpetrated institutional attack, and we will respond with force,” Netanyahu said on Monday in his office released a Video-message.
children among the injured
Netanyahu is currently in Washington, where he wanted to come along on Monday with US President Donald Trump. “Due to the security incidents” in Israel, he will cut his U.S. visit, said Netanyahu. After the Meeting with Trump, he will return immediately to Israel “to conduct the operations from the vicinity”.
According to the rescue service, Magen David Adom also, three children were injured in the attack – a Baby, a three year old toddler and a twelve year old. In addition, among other things, a 60-year-old and a 30-year-old woman from Rocket debris had been taken. Some people were treated for shock. The beschossene house went up in flames. Police cordoned off the area.
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The surprise attack took place in the middle of the Israeli election campaign, two weeks before the parliamentary election. 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.
On the 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. At the time, it was said that the two projectiles were mistakenly fired from Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to be received on Monday evening by US President Donald Trump in the White house.
The conflict in the Gaza strip’s ruling Hamas had worsened again recently. On the border to Israel, it comes increasingly to the partially violent protests, seeds.
On Sunday night, had fired at the Israeli tanks, according to arms data, a Hamas positions in the Palestinian territory. Palestinian militants had previously sent a missile with explosives to Israel and soldiers on the border with explosives were thrown at them.
Since the beginning of the protests a year ago, the Ministry, according to information provided by the health on the Gaza border more than 260 Palestinians have been killed and thousands have been injured. The protesters are demanding, among other things, an end to the for more than a decade-long Blockade of the Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean sea.
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Israel and Egypt’s Blockade justified by security interests. Hamas is classified by the EU, Israel and the United States as a terrorist organization. In the coastal strip, approximately two million people live in difficult conditions. There is a lack, among other things, drinking water and electricity. (dpa, AFP)
