Israel-Gaza battle spills on day 2 with airstrikes and rockets

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Reuters

Nidal Al-Mughrabi

GAZA — Israeli aircraft strike Gaza, Palestinian militants launch rockets at Israeli city on Saturday, fighting lasts two days Plunging into the eyes, more than a year has endedrelatively calm along the border.

Israel announced on Friday that it had launched a special operation against Islamic jihadist militant groups in Palestine, killing one of his senior commanders in a daytime air strike against a high-rise in Gaza City.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks have killed at least four of his Islamic jihadists and nine of his Palestinians, including one of his children, and injured 79 others. did.

In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said he had arrested 19 Islamic jihadists in an overnight arrest raid.

Palestinian militants have fired at least 160 rockets across the border, the military said. Some were fired at Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial hub. Most of the missiles were intercepted, and several suffered minor injuries as they fled to shelters.

A Palestinian official familiar with the effort said Egypt, the United Nations and Qatar had begun mediation to end the violence, but said "there is no breakthrough yet."

Officials in the Western-backed Palestinian Authority condemned the Israeli attack.

"We call on the international community to intervene and protect our people," Civil Affairs Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh said on Twitter.

Further escalation will largely depend on Hamas, the Islamic extremist group that controls Gaza, and whether it chooses to join the fight.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Friday's attack thwarted an immediate and concrete attack by Islamic Jihad.

The border has been largely quiet since May 2021. At least 250 people in Gaza and 13 of her in Israel died in 11 days of heavy fighting between Israel and militants. (Additional reporting and writing by Mayan Lebel; Editing by Robert Barthel)