Flare- up erupts during nurse’s funeral
Palestinian medic was killed by Israeli fire on Gaza border
Gaza City, June 3: Israeli aircraft pounded over a dozen militant targets in Gaza, the Army said on Sunday, after Palestinian projectile fire shattered a ceasefire reached just days ago after the worst flare- up since a 2014 war.
The latest escalation came hours after thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of a young female volunteer medic Razan al Najar killed by Israeli fire on Gaza’s border.
In a first wave of air strikes, Israeli “fighter jets targeted 10 terror sites in three military compounds belonging to the Hamas terror organisation in the Gaza Strip,” the Army said in a statement early Sunday.
“Among the targets were two Hamas munition manufacturing and storage sites and a military compound,” the Army said.
The strikes came in retaliation for rockets fired at Israel, as well as “various terror activities approved and orchestrated by the Hamas terror organisation over the weekend,” the Army said.
A few hours later aircraft shot at “five terror targets at a military compound belonging to the Hamas terror organisation’s naval force in the northern Gaza Strip,” the Army said.
There were no reports of casualties in Gaza.
On Saturday evening, militants in the Palestinian enclave fired two projectiles at southern Israel, where air raid sirens sent residents to bomb shelters.
The Iron Dome aerial defence system intercepted one projectile, while the other was believed to have fallen short of its target and landed within Gaza, according to the Army.