Israel reports first fatality from Gaza rocket fire since 2014 war
By Ruth Eglash , Ruth Eglash Reporter covering Israel and the Palestinian territories Email Bio Follow Loveday Morris and Loveday Morris Jerusalem bureau chief covering the Middle East Email Bio Follow Hazem Balousha May 5 at 1:21 AM JERUSALEM — Militants in Gaza fired more than 400 rockets into southern Israel overnight Saturday, killing one Israeli man, as the Israeli military jets struck more than 100 targets inside the Palestinian enclave, killing four Palestinians, including a pregnant...
In Gaza, health authorities said two men, 22 and 25, and a 37-year-old pregnant woman and her 14-month-old daughter were killed as Israeli jets carried out airstrikes on Saturday. Overnight authorities there said an additional two men in their twenties were killed. Saturday’s violence comes in the midst of negotiations over a longer-term truce between Hamas and Israel, during which the militant group has tried to assert pressure with rocket fire and incendiary balloons. Hamas is attempting to secure an easing of Israeli restrictions on trade and movement, in return for a lull in violence.
In a joint statement, Gaza’s militant factions said the rocket fire was in response to the “targeting and assassination” of their militants a day earlier. “Our response will be tougher and larger and broader in the face of aggression,” they said in a statement. “It’s a reply to the Israeli targeting of peaceful civilians yesterday by Israeli snipers during the 58th Friday of Great March of Return,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s bureau for international relations, referring to the weekly protests staged in Gaza since last year. “Also, to the procrastination policies of the occupation toward lifting the siege on Gaza.
Representatives of Hamas and Islamic Jihad visited Egypt this past week to discuss the understandings reached with Israel to reduce tensions. The Egyptians have spent months trying to forge a long-term truce between the sides to bring calm and ease conditions for 2 million Gazans.
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