Hopes of a truce between Israel and Palestinian militants after four days of fighting are dashed after a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill a sixth senior member of Islamic Jihad and rockets are fired towards Jerusalem.
In response, the Israeli warplanes struck Islamic Jihad military posts and mortar shell launchers across the Gaza Strip, the military said.
The sirens wailing near Jerusalem on Friday took some back to the spring of 2021, when Hamas fired rockets toward the city, which helped set off a bloody 11-day Gaza war. Islamic Jihad has retaliated with over 900 rockets, most of which were thwarted by Israel's Iron Dome defence system. "We were shocked that our house was targeted," he added as he pulled his children's dolls and blankets from a gaping bomb crater.
Israel, in turn, contends that Palestinian militant groups use civilians as human shields by fighting in their midst. "If the operations were really all that successful, we wouldn't need them once a year on average, with the time between them becoming shorter," Amos Harel, the defence affairs commentator for the Haaretz newspaper, wrote in an analysis Friday.
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