Israel carried out its first air strikes on the Gaza Strip in months beforehand Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as pressures soar after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy point.
Warning enchantresses sounded in southern Israel Monday night after the rocket was fired from the enclave controlled by the Hamas, the first similar incident since early January.
The gunshot crashed into the ocean off Tel Aviv.
“One rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli home. The rocket was interdicted by the Iron Dome Air Defense System,”the Israeli service said in a statement.
Hours latterly the Israeli air force said it had hit a Hamas munitions manufacturing point in retribution.
Hamas claimed to have used its “anti-aircraft defence “to fight the air raids, which caused no casualties, according to substantiations and security sources in Gaza.
No body in the crowded enclave of 2.3 million occupants incontinently claimed responsibility for the rocket but it comes after a series of attacks in Israel and a weekend of pressures at a holy point in Jerusalem.
Israel holds Hamas responsible for all rocket fire from Israel, and generally carries out air strikes in response.
The incident, the first of its kind since January, comes after a weekend of Israeli-Palestinian violence in and around Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound that wounded more than 170 people, mostly Palestinian demonstrators.
Diplomatic sources said the United Nations Security Council was to hold a session on Tuesday to discuss the spike in violence.
Similar violence in Jerusalem around the same time last year triggered repeated Hamas rocket fire into Israel which escalated into an 11-day war.
The spike in tensions coincides with both the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish festival of Passover.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is known to Jews as Temple Mount —the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam.
