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Israeli war jets strike on Gaza in response to rocket firing

Xinhua, October 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israeli war jets carried out an airstrike early Monday on the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses and security officials said. No injuries were reported.

The security officials and eyewitnesses said that Israeli fighter jets fired missiles on a training post belonging to al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement in Gaza.

The airstrike came after a rocket, fired by jihadist Salafi group, landed into southern Israel.

The group, which claimed responsibility for the rocket firing, said the attack was in response to what was happening in the West Bank and Jerusalem from Israeli military operations.

Israel Radio said the rocket hit southern Israel, but caused no injuries or damage.

In another development signifying rising tension in the region, a Palestinian man was killed early Monday by Israeli soldiers during violent clashes in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm, Palestinian medical sources and eyewitnesses said.

The sources told Xinhua that 18-year-old Huthaifa Sulaiman was hit by a bullet in the stomach during clashes between Palestinian youth and the Israeli army.

Tulkarm governor Issam Abu Baker told Xinhua that five other young men were also injured in the clashes.

The West Bank has witnessed a series of intense confrontations between Palestinians and the Israeli army.

The army raided several cities, arresting and wounding a number of Palestinians.

The spokesperson of the Palestinian Red Crescent, Errab Foqaha, told Xinhua that the clashes in the past 24 hours have resulted in the wounding of 425 Palestinians; 23 of them were shot by live ammunition and 128 by rubber-coated bullets.

Four Israelis and three Palestinians have been killed in separate incidents in the West Bank and east Jerusalem since Thursday night.

The Palestinian government on Sunday called on the international community to intervene to stop the Israeli escalation in Jerusalem and in the West Bank.

Ihab Bseiso, spokesman of the government, said in a statement that the current escalation "is part of Israel's attempts to undermine the political and international efforts of the PNA (Palestinian National Authority) and undermine the two-state solution." Endit