GAZA STRIP-Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired 270 rockets at Israel and the Israeli military says it has hit 50 targets belonging to Islamic Jihad, in the heaviest fighting in nine months. It comes a day after 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, including three Islamic Jihad leaders. Islamic Jihad, which is the second biggest militant group in Gaza, had sworn to avenge their deaths. Not long afterwards, militants began firing barrages of rockets from Gaza and rocket sirens sounded in communities in southern Israel. The strikes were the deadliest since three days of hostilities between Israel and Islamic Jihad last August, in which 49 Palestinians were killed in Gaza.

Source: The Nation May 11, 2023 13:09 UTC