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2019-03-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israeli jets strike Hamas targets early Sunday after mortar launched from Gaza
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 [IsraelTmes] IDF says aircraft hit naval vessels belonging to terror group and military site in northern Strip, day after mortar and suspected balloon-borne bomb launched at Israel
Israeli planes struck targets in Gazoo early Sunday, the latest tit-for-tat cross-border fighting that has set the restive region on edge.
The Israel Defense Forces said fighter jets and aircraft hit several targets, including a military compound in the north of the Strip and two naval vessels belonging to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group.
Paleostinian media reported several Israeli strikes around 1:30 a.m. in the northern Strip near Beit Lahia, including on a seaside site known as al-Waha, or Oasis.
There was no immediate word on casualties from the strikes, which came after Paleostinian faceless myrmidons in Gazoo fired a mortar shell at the Eshkol region of southern Israel on Saturday night.
The army said the strikes were in response to the rocket attack, as well as "continuing terror activities from the Strip, including balloon explosives and causing harm to security infrastructure in the last several days."
The mortar was the third to be fired at Israel since Thursday as tensions between the sides continued to simmer. Gazooks have also launched balloon borne bombs at Israel and fired small arms across the border, along with near-daily protests at the fence in which fire bombs are thrown at troops and Paleostinians attempt to damage the barriers, according to the army.
On Saturday, sappers were called after a cluster of balloons suspected of carrying an bomb, possibly an anti-tank warhead, landed in Israeli territory.
And homeowners in the Hof Ashkelon region north of Gazoo said they found a spent bullet shell, possibly from a Kalashnikov rifle, in their living room, seemingly confirming that a large hole torn through an outside wall on Thursday had been caused by gunfire from Gazoo.
The past week has seen a marked uptick in cross-border fighting, including nightly riots along the border fence. There have been no injuries from the attacks from Gazoo.
Israel has carried out perfunctory air raids after each balloon or mortar attack, usually hitting empty military posts maintained by the Hamas terror group, which is the de facto ruler in the Strip.
Locals have urged authorities to seek a long-term solution, with the region appearing poised to slip back into a routine of violence after several months of relative calm thanks to a hard-won ceasefire brokered by Egypt.
"If the children of the Gazoo periphery aren’t sleeping at night because of the situation, it must also wake the policy-makers and those responsible for the security of the citizens of the State of Israel," Gadi Yarkoni, head of the Eshkol Local Council which border Gazoo, said in a statement, after a late-night air raid siren caused by the mortar fire Saturday night.
Egypt and other mediators have been working intensively in recent weeks to broker a new ceasefire agreement between the two sides, but thus far to no avail.
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