Rocket shelling

Palestinian terrorists fired a rocket toward the southern coastal city of Ashkelon in the early hours of Saturday, the first projectile to be launched at Israel from Hamas-ruled Gaza since April. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. The IDF…

TEL AVIV, Israel⁠—Israel on Sunday closed its civilian border crossing with the Gaza Strip, preventing thousands of Gazans from getting to work in Israel, in an effort to pressure Gaza’s ruler Hamas to halt rocket attacks against southern Israel. The Israeli closure comes after Palestinian militants fired two rockets at…

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Israel said it will close its only crossing from the Gaza Strip for workers on Sunday after militants in the Palestinian enclave fired three rockets at the Jewish state. “Following the rockets fired toward Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip last night, it was decided that crossings into Israel for…

Israel said it will close its only crossing from the Gaza Strip for workers on Sunday in response to overnight rocket fire, stopping short of conducting retaliatory strikes in an apparent bid to ease tensions.  The rocket attacks on Friday night and Saturday morning followed days of clashes at Jerusalem's…

Israel has fired on a target in the Gaza Strip, in response to a rocket attack, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says. The foreign minister of Israel, Yair Lapid, is cutting his holiday in Spain short due to the rising tensions and will be back in Israel by the evening,…

Israel carried out strikes early Tuesday in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave into Israel, witnesses and its ruling Islamist movement said. Israeli aircraft hit the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses said, while the armed wing of Hamas announced that it fired on Israeli planes.…

Israel carried out its first air strikes on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions soar after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy site. Warning sirens sounded in southern Israel Monday night after the rocket was…

Israeli air attacks hit ‘rocket manufacturing site, military posts’ in the besieged Gaza Strip. Published On 2 Jan 20222 Jan 2022 Israel’s military said it launched air attacks on Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip, a day after rockets fired from Gaza landed in the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli military…

One day after the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli police forcibly dispersed a protest at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, or Temple Mount, the site of a previous police raid last Monday that Hamas cited in launching its initial rocket attacks. Why it matters: Tensions in Jerusalem were a primary driver of…