Israeli Retaliatory Airstrikes Kill Palestinian
A Palestinian was killed by Israeli airstrikes on Saturday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said, in an attack launched in response to rocket fire.
Dozens of strikes hit the Palestinian enclave in the early hours, targeting bases of the strip's Islamist rulers and allied groups, a security source in Gaza said.
The Israeli army said the strikes targeted "a wide range of Hamas terror targets", including a Hamas naval site, a military compound and a weapons manufacturing site.
One person was killed, the health ministry in Gaza said, naming him as Ahmed al-Shehri, 27.
It did not say whether he was affiliated with any faction.
The sound of explosions could be heard up and down the impoverished territory, an AFP correspondent said.
A Hamas source said they had fired at the Israeli aircraft carrying out the raids and the Israeli army confirmed fresh "incoming fire" from Gaza.
The strikes came in response to at least 10 rockets fired from Gaza late Friday at southern Israel.
The Israeli army said the country's Iron Dome anti-missile defence system intercepted eight of the rockets.
The rockets were fired in waves, the army said, with air raid sirens sounding.
One house was hit and damaged, without any casualties, the army said, posting a picture of the damage on Twitter.
It was the second consecutive evening that the army reported rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, which is ruled by Hamas.
Prior to Thursday, there had been no such reported rocket fire from Gaza since September 12.
In August, a series of rocket attacks from Gaza and Israeli retaliations, as well as border clashes, raised fears of an escalation between Hamas and Israel, as elections approached in the Jewish state.
Those polls -- Israel's second elections this year -- took place on September 17, but have yet to yield a new government.
Sworn enemies Israel and Hamas have fought three wars in the Palestinian enclave since 2008.
Analysts say a fourth round remains likely.
02 November 2019, 12:32
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Remember that word - RETALIATORY.
Don't fire rockets into Israel, there will be no retaliation.
How simple.
03 November 2019, 01:13
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Nothing israel does is retaliatory since they are the foreigners occupying land, forbidding refugees from returning, have killed thousands upon thousands, jailed hundreds of thousands at one point or the other, deliberately targeted children, have bombed hospitals and schools, destroyed the economy, enter the homes of Palestinians as they wish, step on holy books, destroy/vandalize Muslim and Christian cemeteries, demolish civilian houses, have settlers move into Palestinian homes, put poison in the water, cut down trees and many more crimes. The people in Gaza are 70%+ refugees from the cities and villages where these fire cracker "rockets" land. It's their land and they are the ones retaliating the billions of crimes that zionists have as debts to the people of the middle east.
03 November 2019, 13:46
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A refugee is someone who was evicted from his home / homeland.
As 95% of the people living in Gaza are under 72 years old, there is no chance that they were expelled and sent to Gaza, but were actually born there.
