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Rockets rain down! Rockets were fired from Gaza, into Israel in retaliation following raid against terror cell
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InJerusalem, Palestinian groups fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip early on Thursday, February 23, a familiar pattern that is now routine. This is in retaliation for a raid by Israeli security forces on Wednesday, February 22 in the West Bank city of Nablus, or better known in the Bible as (Shechem).
The Palestinian health authorities are saying that ten Palestinians were killed in the raid with many people wounded.
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Israel had retaliated for the rocket fire by bombing a weapons manufacturing factory in
Gaza, as well as a naval weapons compound.
Israel Defense Forces has issued a statement saying, "This strike significantly harms the capabilities and prevents further weapon acquisition capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip and especially in the maritime zone."
This statement went on to further accuse Hamas of putting weapons storage facilities among their civilian population in Gaza, making it more likely to make innocent people casualties in this conflict.
Most of the rockets that are fired from
Gaza were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. Also, a rocket had come down in a field without causing any damage, but the sirens are continuing to be a major disturbance in Israeli population centers around the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces came face to face with gunfire when they had conducted the Nablus raid; they were looking for three members of the terror group Lion's Den. They were suspected to have killed a 21 year old Israeli soldier Ido Baruch last October. The three suspects were among the Palestinian dead.
A video of a Palestinian security vehicle that was fleeing the scene in Nablus had angered many of the Palestinians who believe that President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority have continued their cooperation with Israel on the security operations, despite the claims that those efforts have stopped.
Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh writing in The Jerusalem Post called the growing dissatisfaction with Palestinian Authority leaders "good news for Hamas."
