Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza Saturday after clashes between its troops and Palestinian protesters left dozens injured, including an Israeli border policeman and a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who were both critically wounded. The Israeli military said it carried out air strikes against four weapons sites and that it had reinforced its Gaza division with additional troops. The escalation came exactly three months since Israel and the enclave’s Islamist rulers Hamas reached a truce following their deadliest fighting in years. This came after a Palestinian militant group named Hamas and other factions of Jihadists started cross-border gunfire.
Palestinians hurled firebombs at Israeli troops as they fired in return as several were injured, reports said. Right after suffering the attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took to social media and informed that an Israeli Border Police soldier was critically injured by live fire from Gaza, and all the rioters present at the war-torn site have been dispersed. Gaza’s health ministry said at least 41 civilians were wounded in clashes with Israeli troops as Palestinians tried to climb the Gaza Strip’s northern border fence. Later, the defence force of Israel informed that in response to the violence instigated on the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday, Israel Army has struck down four Hamas weapons and storage manufacturing sites. The Israeli military said its fighter jets had struck four weapons storage and manufacturing sites belonging to Hamas during the airstrikes.
The Israeli military said it had sent additional forces to the Gaza border area amid threat of retaliatory fire from Hamas and has reportedly deployed the Iron Dome anti-missile system.
The Israeli army alleged that “hundreds of rioters” had tried to scale the northern border and had hurled “explosive devices” as the army fired tear gas shells.
