Air raid sirens wail across southern and central Israel, with the army urging people to stay near bomb shelters.
7 Oct 2023
A barrage of rockets was fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip as fighters from the blockaded Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel, with at least one person killed, the army and medics said.
Air raid sirens wailed across southern and central Israel, with the army urging people to stay close to bomb shelters.
The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas announced it was behind the aerial assault, claiming its fighters had launched more than 5,000 rockets.
Israel’s military said Hamas launched “massive shooting of rockets”, while at the same time “terrorists infiltrated into Israeli territory in a number of different locations”.
Hamas called on “the resistance fighters in the West Bank” as well as “our Arab and Islamic nations” to join the battle, in a statement posted on Telegram.
Israel has imposed a crippling blockade on Gaza since 2007 after Hamas took power.
