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ISRAELI WARPLANES BOMBED Gaza after clashes between its troops and Palestinian protesters left dozens injured, including an Israeli border policeman and a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who were both critically wounded.
The Israeli military said it carried out air strikes against four weapons sites and that it had reinforced its Gaza division with additional troops.
The escalation came exactly three months since Israel and the enclave’s Islamist rulers Hamas reached a truce following their deadliest fighting in years.
Israeli troops fired at Palestinian protesters who gathered near the Gaza border wall, the army and Palestinian witnesses said.
A Palestinian gunman fired at Israeli troops through an opening in the wall and crowds of young protesters hurled explosives over the barrier and tried to scale it.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said the injured included a 13-year-old boy left in a critical condition after being hit in the head.
“Forty-one civilians were wounded with various injuries,” the ministry said in a statement, with Hamas saying “thousands” of protesters had taken part.
The Israel Border Police said a 21-year-old sniper in its undercover unit was critically wounded when he was shot by a Palestinian protester.
“His condition is critical and there is a risk to his life,” it said of the wounded officer.
Hamas called for protest
Israeli police commissioner Kobi Shabtai in a statement vowed the force would “continue to act firmly and with all our might against those who want to harm us.”
Defence Minister Benny Gantz had warned that “these are definitely extremely serious events that will have a response”.
Shortly after his comments, the Israeli Air Force said on Twitter that its “fighter jets struck four weapons manufacturing and storage sites belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation”.
There were no immediate reports of any casualties from the strikes.
Hamas had called a protest Saturday to mark the burning 52 years ago of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam.
“Al-Aqsa Mosque is a red line, and any attack on it will be met with valiant resistance from our people,” the movement said in a statement.
Late Saturday, Hamas and other groups in Gaza issued a joint statement in which they “saluted the heroic youth” who clashed with Israeli forces.
The violence is some of the worst since the 21 May ceasefire came into force.
Over 11 days in May, Israel pounded Gaza with air strikes in response to rockets fired from the enclave.
Gaza reconstruction
Hamas said it took action after Israeli security forces stormed Al-Aqsa in May.
Reconstruction in Gaza has stalled since the ceasefire, in part because of a crippling blockade Israel has maintained on the enclave since Hamas seized power in 2007.
On Thursday, Israel announced it would allow funds from Qatar to reach impoverished Palestinians in Gaza. Other restrictions remain.
The ceasefire Egypt brokered between Hamas and Israel has largely held, although there have been flare-ups.
On Monday Israel said its “Iron Dome” missile defence system intercepted a rocket fired by militants in Gaza into Israel, the first time since the recent battle.
That came after four Palestinians were killed in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
In 2018, Gazans began a protest movement demanding an end to Israel’s blockade and a right for Palestinians to return to lands they fled after the Jewish state was founded.
The Hamas-backed weekly demonstrations, often violent, sputtered as Israel killed some 350 Palestinians in Gaza over more than a year.
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Dublin City Council, you guys need this. Pronto.
Dublin city council, Needs public Toilets pronto
Exactly Francis. No point giving out about public urination if there are no public toilets available at 1 am when all the pubs close.
What you want is for the lamp post to collect the piss and spray it back out a bit higher over the perp’s head. And let out a little chuckle….
Jeepers. That might piss off a few people!
We need that in Dublin ASAP the amount of dirty drunk men who urinate on the streets is unbelievable…I would love to see a judge get them to wash the streets for punishment.
That’s right Denise, it won’t work for the dirty drunken women who urinate on the street as they ‘hover’.
Very true John. I’ve seen plenty of young ladies hunker down and let go after a busy nights drinking.
and drunk women pissing on footpaths
Where can i buy that paint for the house
Can I have that paint for school toilets so kids can learn to aim correctly not on the walls, seat, floor. Can you paint it on the seat & floor???? I hope there are parents reading this article & teach your kids how to aim correctly.
piss at an angle. flawed system
if you take a slash at an angle away from your body you’ll be grand
Dublin City could do with this. Mind you we will now have to send a minister on a jaunt to see how it works.
No, the council could do with opening some public toilets.
Múnfaidh sé sin iad!
Heh!Heh!Heh! Punster ceart tré mhean na Gaeilge! An múinteoir tusa?
This story is so old it has whiskers. Are any Journal staff on social media?
what another scam people fall for any oul codswallop when people are drunk they piss on there shoes and pants either way no matter what paints on the wall
Just piss on the ground.
Did ted from the lab in the naked gun invent this?
If only you’d written the same article 2 months ago!
Ah c’mon San Francisco – you are taking the piss now….?
Should that not be “The new paint is spraying off”
gee “whizz”
have your say