A burst of rockets from Gaza to Tel Aviv causes another death in Israel

The death of the man, in his 50s, was confirmed by the Police and the Israeli emergency service Maguén David Adom and brings the number of dead in Israel to ten since the beginning of the escalation last Monday.

The impact on Ramat Gan is the closest in years to Tel Aviv, the second most populous city in the country and which in the current escalation has been one of the main objectives of the Palestinian militias in Gaza.

In addition to Tel Aviv, the latest wave of rockets launched from the enclave sounded anti-aircraft alarms in various cities in central Israel, and even near the Palestinian city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

These shots come after a day yesterday in which the intensity of the attacks decreased, and a relatively calm Saturday morning, and in the framework of the mediation attempts of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Palestinian and Israeli Affairs of the US State Department, Hady Amr, who arrived in the country yesterday.

While during the night and early morning Israel continued to attack military targets of the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, the rockets from the enclave did not stop this Saturday, and according to figures from the Israeli Army, they have already risen to 2,300 since they began. the shooting Monday afternoon.

The Palestinian death toll in Gaza today reached 140, including 40 children and following the death this morning of a family of 10 people, in what Palestinian sources described as a “massacre” by Israeli forces.

The Army assured that the attack was directed at senior functions of the Islamist movement Hamas, “in an apartment used as terrorist infrastructure”, and blamed the group for “using civilians as human shields.”