Hamas draws 10 rockets in the south of Israel, injuring one, in greater attack in months

Hamas pulled 10 rockets in the south of Israel on Sunday evening in the largest dam of this type for months.

Five of the ten rockets were intercepted by the air defenses of Israel, the Israeli defense forces said, but at least one of the other five struck Ashkelon, causing damage. A 30 -year -old man was slightly injured by bursts of shells and taken to the city’s barzilai hospital to be treated.

Magen David Adom emergency services said two other people were injured in shelters, while several people were treated for acute anxiety after the attack.

The rockets were launched to the coastal cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod shortly after 21 hours of Deir al-Balah de Central Gaza, an area where the FDI did not work.

Hamas claimed the responsibility of the rocket dam shortly after its launch.

Israel immediately swore that the terrorist group would pay a high price. Defense Minister Israel Katz – after talking to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on his way to the United States – said he had ordered the FDI to extend his offensive renewal against Hamas.

Following the attack, the FDI Arabic language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, issued an evacuation warning for Palestinian civilians in the Deir al-Balah region, saying that it was a “last warning” before the FDI was there.

The soldiers then said they had a drone strike targeting the rocket launcher used to launch the dam.

Images published on social networks have shown the time of impact in Ashkelon, the rocket seeming to strike nearly several buildings of high -rise apartments.

Home front command officers worked on the rocket impact sites, the army said.

Images published on social networks show the moment of the impact of the rocket in Ashkelon this evening.

Hamas has launched 10 rockets in the attack, according to the IDF, the largest Gaza dam in several months.

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Netanyahu called Katz from his wing of Zion Plane. According to his office, Netanyahu told Katz to answer hard, approving the continuation of intensive military operations against Hamas in Gaza.

In a statement published shortly after his conversation with the Prime Minister, Katz said he had asked the FDI to “continue and widen” the current offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

He said he had told the military to “wear a very powerful blow to Hamas in Gaza in response to the fire (rocket)”, adding that “for each piece of shells that strikes an Ashkelon resident, Hamas murderers will pay a very heavy price.”

The salvo of the rockets has been the largest attack launched by Hamas since the collapse of the cease-fire and hostage agreement last month.

The agreement was intended to be a multi-shade agreement which would see the release of all the hostages of Gaza, both alive and dead, and would end the war there.

In total, Hamas released 30 hostages and made the bodies of eight Israeli captives killed during the first phase of the ceasefire between January and March.

The second phase of the agreement was supposed to see the return of all the living hostages remaining in exchange for the full withdrawal of the Israeli force from Gaza and a permanent end to war. Netanyahu refused to carry out phase two, arguing that it would allow Hamas to survive and relaunch, and, with support, with us, sought to obtain more versions of living hostages in an extended phase phase. Hamas has refused to accept such a arrangement. Israel then cut all the aid deliveries in Gaza in early March and resumed military operations on March 18.

The Ministry of Health managed by Hamas of the Enclave, which does not make the difference between civilians and combatants in its unaccompanied personalities, said that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed so far in renewed fights.

Sunday, the Gaza health authorities said that at least 32 people had been killed in strikes during the last day, including more than a dozen women and children.

According to Nasser Hospital in Southern Gaza, night strikes between Saturday and Sunday hit a tent and a house in the city of Khan Younis, killing five men, five women and five children.

In northern Gaza, the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas said that at least four people had been killed in the Jabalia refugee camp, and the Civil Defense Agency linked to Hamas said that a strike in Gaza City had struck people waiting outside a bakery, killing at least six, including three children.

At the center of the band, a journalist by Associated Press reported that the bodies of seven people arrived at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, including a child and three women.

The war in Gaza was launched by October 7, 2023, the invasion of Hamas and the massacre in southern Israel, in which around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, were killed and 251 were seized as hostages.

Fifty-nine of the 251 hostages remain in captivity, of which 24 are still alive, according to Israeli intelligence assessments. More than 100 hostages were published during a truce of a week in November 2023, and during the recent ceasefire, Hamas released 30 living hostages – 20 Israeli civilians, five soldiers and five Thai nationals – and the bodies of eight Israeli captives killed.

The Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas says that more than 50,000 people in the strip have been killed or are presumed to be dead in the fighting so far, although the balance sheet cannot be checked. Israel says he killed some 20,000 combat fighters in January and 1,600 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.

Israel said he was looking to minimize civilian deaths and stresses that Hamas uses civilians from Gaza as human shields, fighting civil zones, including houses, hospitals, schools and mosques.

Israel’s toll in 18 -month -old offensive in the strip and military operations of me along the border are 410, including a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and two civil entrepreneurs from the Ministry of Defense.

The agencies contributed to this report.