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| Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket hits house | Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket hits house |
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| Israel is carrying out strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, hours after seven Israelis were injured when a rocket hit a house north of Tel Aviv. | |
| The Israel Defense Forces identified one of the targets as a secret military intelligence headquarters. There were no immediate reports of any casualties. | |
| The IDF has accused Hamas, which controls Gaza, of firing the rocket that hit Mishmeret on Monday morning. | |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced it as "wanton aggression". | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced it as "wanton aggression". |
| "Israel will not tolerate this, I will not tolerate this," he told reporters during a ceremony at the White House at which US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognising Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Middle East war. | "Israel will not tolerate this, I will not tolerate this," he told reporters during a ceremony at the White House at which US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognising Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Middle East war. |
| So far no Palestinian militant group has said it fired the rocket. One unnamed Hamas official said it had "no interest" in doing so. | So far no Palestinian militant group has said it fired the rocket. One unnamed Hamas official said it had "no interest" in doing so. |
| What happened on Monday morning? | What happened on Monday morning? |
| A rocket launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza hit a house in Mishmeret, about 120km (75 miles) to the north, causing severe damage to the building and setting it on fire. | A rocket launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza hit a house in Mishmeret, about 120km (75 miles) to the north, causing severe damage to the building and setting it on fire. |
| The Israeli ambulance service treated two women who were moderately wounded and five other people, including an infant, a three-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, who had minor wounds. | The Israeli ambulance service treated two women who were moderately wounded and five other people, including an infant, a three-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, who had minor wounds. |
| The house belonged to Robert and Susan Wolf, two British-Israeli dual nationals, who had been at home with their son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. | The house belonged to Robert and Susan Wolf, two British-Israeli dual nationals, who had been at home with their son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. |
| "I nearly lost my family. If we had not got to the bomb shelter in time I would now be burying all my family," Mr Wolf told reporters. | "I nearly lost my family. If we had not got to the bomb shelter in time I would now be burying all my family," Mr Wolf told reporters. |
| The blast also caused damage to at least one nearby home and several vehicles. | The blast also caused damage to at least one nearby home and several vehicles. |
| It was the furthest a rocket has reached in Israel since the 2014 conflict in Gaza. | It was the furthest a rocket has reached in Israel since the 2014 conflict in Gaza. |
| IDF spokeswoman Major Mika Lifshitz said Hamas, which has fought three wars with Israel since 2008, was to blame for the launch. | |
| "It's a Hamas rocket, itself made by Hamas," she said. "It has an ability to reach more than 120km." | |
| "We see Hamas as responsible for all that happens in the Gaza Strip," she added. | |
| What has Israel struck in response? | |
| Reuters news agency cited Palestinian security sources and Hamas media outlets as saying that one of the Israeli strikes targeted a Hamas naval position west of Gaza City, and that another hit a large Hamas training camp in northern Gaza. | |
| The Palestinian official news agency, Wafa, reported that warplanes fired missiles at sites west of Gaza City and in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. | |
| Loud explosions were also heard in the southern town of Khan Younis. | |
| The IDF later said its fighters jets targeted a three-storey building in the Sabra area in eastern Gaza City that served as the "secret headquarters" of Hamas's General Security Forces, and its General Intelligence and Military Intelligence agencies. | |
| "The site is a central Hamas government building and is used for military purposes, and was struck alongside other locations that have been targeted as part of the IDF's strikes in the Gaza Strip," the IDF added. | |
| Before launching the strikes, the IDF deployed two additional brigades to southern Israel and began what it called a "very limited" call-up of reservists. | |
| Israeli authorities also closed roads near the boundary fence with Gaza, suspended agricultural work in the area, postponed major events in the southern coastal town of Ashkelon, and opened bomb shelters. |