Israel retaliates against Palestinian rocket attacks

 France24:

Israel unleashed new air strikes on Gaza early Tuesday, targeting the homes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders as Palestinian armed groups fired dozens of rockets toward Israel. The latest escalation comes after weeks of tensions in contested Jerusalem.

Explosions shook buildings across the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday and rocket sirens sent Israelis in many southern towns scurrying for shelter overnight.

Israel's army on Tuesday said it hit 130 "military targets" in Gaza, killing 15 "Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives" in retaliatory strikes

"We have struck 130 military targets belonging mostly to Hamas," the Islamist group that controls the blockaded Gaza strip, Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters.

Hours later, the Islamic Jihad group said two of its top commanders were killed in the Israeli Gaza strikes.

At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in Gaza overnight, most of them in Israeli strikes, according to Palestinian officials. More than 700 Palestinians were hurt in clashes with Israeli security forces in Jerusalem and across the West Bank in 24 hours, including nearly 500 who were treated at hospitals.

The Israeli military said six Israeli civilians were hurt by rocket fire Tuesday morning.
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Israel's army estimated that roughly a third of the rockets launched by militants had "fallen short", landing inside Gaza, and may be responsible for Palestinian casualties, Conricus said.

He told reporters that sites targeted so far included weapons manufacturing and storage facilities, training sites and military bases in Gaza.

The home of one militant commander and a "Hamas intelligence centre" were also targeted, the spokesman said, without providing details.

"We are in the early stages of our counter strikes... They will continue."
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Biden and the Democrats have sided with the terrorist and the Palestinians think they have free reign to attack Israel.  Biden has been a total disaster for peace in the Middle East siding with the Iranian regime and funding the Palestinian slay for pay operations.  This would never have happened under a Trump administration.  He defunded the terrorist because they would not join in peace talks and he managed to get deals with Arab countries.

One of the disputes is over ownership of land near Jerusalem that was seized by Jordan in 1948 from Jewish owners.

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The newest conflict has surrounded an area known as Sheikh Jarrah, an area of Northeastern Jerusalem where the population is primarily Arab. The accusation is that Israel is unjustly evicting several Palestinian families from the neighborhood. The area has been back and forth between Jewish/Israeli control and Arab/Muslim control over the past 80 years, leading to the current crisis of claim to the property. Jews, who originally owned the property before 1948 were forced out by Jordanian forces. In 1967, during the Six-Days War, Israel regained control of the neighborhood, restoring the control of the area to any families that could prove they were unlawfully evicted by the Jordanians. As a result, a long and sometimes bloody battle has ensued due to the conflict over the land’s ownership.
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