Israel Air Force warplanes carried out sorties in the Gaza Strip early Thursday in response to a rocket attack on southern Israel hours earlier, as a new round of rocket alarms sounded in Sderot and nearby towns, the military said.
The Israel Defense Forces said its jets bombed a site where the Hamas terror group stores chemicals used to make missiles. It also struck a facility where the group manufactures weaponry, the army said.
The Palestinian Shehab news outlet reported that Israel bombed “resistance sites” in the central Gaza Strip.
Footage published by Palestinian media outlets showed fireballs exploding amid the densely populated coastal enclave.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Israel considers Hamas, which rules the Strip, responsible for any attack emanating from the enclave regardless of whether the group was behind it.
מטוסי קרב תקפו הלילה אתר ייצור ואחסנת חומרי גלם כימיים המשמש את מערך הייצור הרקטי של ארגון הטרור חמאס, ואתר לייצור אמצעי לחימה, הממוקמים שניהם במרכז רצועת עזה.
התקיפה בוצעה בתגובה לשיגור הרקטה, שיורטה על ידי לוחמי ההגנה האווירית מוקדם יותר היום, משטח רצועת עזה לשטח ישראל>> pic.twitter.com/FvpUxJaHmM
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) February 2, 2023
“The strike deals a serious blow to Hamas’s ability to fortify and arm itself,” the IDF said in a statement.
The Israeli bombing runs came hours after a rocket launched toward the southern city of Sderot on Wednesday evening was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, the IDF said.
Sirens went off again in Sderot shortly before 3 a.m. as Israel carried out the airstrikes. The military said it was investigating what triggered the alarm.
فيديو| غارات إسرائيلية على موقع للمقاومة وسط قطاع غزة. pic.twitter.com/uf4wjJ70wS
— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) February 2, 2023
In the earlier rocket attack, a woman in her 50s was lightly hurt after slipping while running to a bomb shelter in Sderot, medics said. She was taken by the Magen David Adom ambulance service to a nearby hospital for treatment.
A large piece of shrapnel caused minor damage to a road, the Sderot municipality said.
Rocket shrapnel found in the city of Sderot following an attack from the Gaza Strip, Febuary 1, 2023. (Sderot Municipality)
The rocket attack was the second in recent days, with the region convulsed by increased violence in recent weeks. On January 26, Palestinian fighters fired 2 missiles at Israel, in response to a deadly raid in the West Bank earlier that day. Then as well, Gazans fired a fresh volley of rockets at Israel when it carried out an ensuing round of airstrikes early the next morning.
A statement from the National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, claimed responsibility for the second round of rocket fire on southern Israel Thursday morning, saying in a statement that it was a response to the “systematic aggression” of the Israel Prison Service against Palestinian inmates.
Palestinians also shot anti-aircraft fire at the Israeli fighter jets, Shehab reported.
The Wednesday attack had also seemed to be in response to reports of a crackdown by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) against Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails, especially female prisoners.
Images and a video circulating on social media shortly after the attack Wednesday showed three Iranian-made 107mm Fadjr-1 projectiles, similar to the shrapnel found in Sderot, with text on them reading: “The female prisoners are a red line.”
It was unclear which armed group had issued the footage, and there was no immediate claim by any of the Gaza-based terror groups for the rocket fire Wednesday.
غزة تلبي النداء.. الأسيرات خط أحمر وتعدهم بأن تحريرهم لن يطول#فلسطين #غزة #الأسيرات_خط_أحمر pic.twitter.com/Q2D9ffeaxZ
— موقع الخنادق (@AlKhanadeq) February 1, 2023
The Prisons Service has been taking disciplinary actions against so-called security prisoners — Palestinians held on terror charges — who had been allegedly celebrating recent terror attacks in Israel. The Kan public broadcaster said the moves were also being taken against female Palestinian prisoners, some of who have been transferred to solitary confinement and have had their rooms searched.
The network said Islamic Jihad had threatened a response over the jailers’ actions.
Footage purportedly of an Iron Dome interception over Sderot. pic.twitter.com/vYUpFq0w0O
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) February 1, 2023
Earlier Wednesday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir ordered the Prisons Service to shutter two bakeries inside detention facilities that were supplying security inmates with fresh bread.
The minister said the rocket attacks would not deter him from taking measures against prisoners.
“The [rocket] fire from Gaza will not stop me from continuing to work to abolish the summer camp conditions of murderous terrorists. I give my full support to the Prisons Service to go into the [prison] wings and restore order,” he said.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to the press at Jerusalem’s Shaare Tzedek hospital on January 28, 2023 (Courtesy Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Tensions have been high as the IDF has pressed on with an anti-terror offensive mostly focused on the northern West Bank to deal with a series of attacks that left 31 people in Israel dead in 2022, and seven more in an attack on Friday.
The IDF’s operation has netted more than 2,500 arrests in near-nightly raids. It also left 171 Palestinians dead in 2022, and another 35 since the beginning of the year, many of them while carrying out attacks or during clashes with security forces, though some were uninvolved civilians.
Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early February 1, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
On Friday night, a Palestinian gunman from East Jerusalem killed seven people and injured three more in the capital’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, and the next morning, a 13-year-old Palestinian shot and wounded two Israeli men near the Old City.
There has also been a rise in revenge attacks by Israelis against Palestinians following the two terror attacks.
The IDF bolstered forces in the West Bank following the recent incidents.
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