The violence ended weeks of relative calm and could threaten bids for a longer-term truce.
Smoke and flames rise after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on May 4, 2019.
In Gaza, health authorities said a 22-year-old man and a 37 woman and her 14-month-old baby girl were killed as Israeli jets carried out airstrikes. An additional 18 were injured. Israeli officials said they hit dozens of “terror targets” inside the Palestinian enclave, which is control by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
In a joint statement Gaza’s militant factions said that the rocket fire was in response “targeting and assassination” of their militants a day earlier. “Our response will be tougher and larger and broader in the face of aggression,” they said in a statement. It also said tanks and military jets were targeting sites in the northern and eastern sections of Gaza. The Army’s Chief of the Staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi met with senior security officials and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to be briefed.
Musab al-Buraim, spokesman of Islamic Jihad, the second largest militant faction in Gaza, said in a short statement that it too was committed to “resistance.” In March, Netanyahu’s trip to Washington to meet with President Trump and speak at the annual AIPAC policy conference was cut short after a rocket fired from Gaza slammed into a house in central Israel.
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