Hamas launches first rocket attack on Tel Aviv in months | World News

For the first time in months, Hamas has launched rocket attacks on Tel Aviv from Gaza.

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in what appeared to be the first long-range rocket attack from Gaza since January, although Palestinian militants have continued to sporadically fire rockets and mortar shells at communities along the Gaza border since then.

The military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Israeli military said eight missiles crossed the border into Israel after being fired from the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces recently launched an incursion.

Several of the rockets were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, it said.

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The previous Sunday, aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip via the Israeli Kerem Shalom border crossing for the first time since the conclusion of a new aid agreement.

After Egypt closed its side of the Rafah crossing following Israel’s decision to take control of the Gaza side, aid routes were diverted.

However, due to ongoing fighting in Rafah, it is unclear whether humanitarian groups will have access to the incoming aid.

The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to stop its Rafah offensiveIsrael insists that this is key to self-defense and the goal of completely destroying Hamas.

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Israeli protests over hostage-taking

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under growing pressure to reach an agreement with Hamas to release the remaining hostages. Several bodies were recently recovered.

On Saturday night, there were large protests in Tel Aviv, during which there were physical altercations between demonstrators and police.

In the eighth month of War between Israel and Hamas According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, nearly 36,000 Palestinians died in the attack.

The majority of the two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip have been displaced.

Hamas Attack on Israel on October 7 last year 1,200 people were killed and the militants took about 250 hostages, of whom about 100 are still held captive in Gaza.