"At the moment, Israeli Air Force fighters have begun strikes against terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip," the military said in a communiqué. Other details of the attack response is not given yet.
Earlier, air defense sirens worked in Beersheba, warning residents about rocket fire. A little later, the military reported that they had detected two launches from the Gaza Strip: one rocket flew to Israel, one more - towards the sea. The Times of Israel newspaper reports that the shell exploded in the courtyard of a house in Beersheba, there were no wounded as a result of the shelling, but damage was caused.
Beer-Sheva is located 40 km east of the Gaza Strip. Israel regards the shelling of this city as a serious escalation. The last time the radicals from the Gaza Strip fired a missile at Beer Sheva on August 9, and before that they hadn’t fired at the city for 4 years since the completion of the last military operation of the Israeli army "Indestructible Rock" in the Palestinian enclave that lasted 50 days in July-August 2014 .
On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was necessary to launch “very hard blows” to the Gaza Strip in order to end the violence that had been going on since the end of March. According to the newspaper Haaretz, the cabinet of ministers of the Jewish state will meet on Wednesday to discuss the situation around the Gaza Strip.
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