One Rocket Launched At Israel From Gaza Over Shabbos

By i24 News
Posted on 03/09/19 | News Source: MATZAV

Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip, causing red alert sirens to blast through border communities adjacent to the Hamas-run enclave.

According to a report by Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper, Egyptian officials warned Hamas during this weeks meetings in Gaza that “creating tensions on the border by launching incendiary balloons will bring the IDF to launch a broad military confrontation in the Strip.”

Earlier on Saturday, people exploring in an area of Israel’s southern Negev desert were evacuated from the vicinity after a balloon carrying what police later said was an anti-tank missile landed in Israeli territory.

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