The Palestinian movement Hamas reported on May 12 that at least 130 rockets were fired at the Israeli cities of Ashkelon, Netivot and Sderot.
Radio station Alquds.co.uk. It clarifies that the strikes were a response of the radicals to the death of a number of their commanders, as well as to the destruction of a 16-story building in the center of the Gaza Strip, Burj al-Shuruk, as a result of Israeli shelling.
It is noted that the air raid sirens also worked in Tel Aviv.
Earlier in the day, the militant wing of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip, the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, reported one of its leaders dead, who died as a result of rocket attacks on the coastal enclave from Israel. The total death toll from Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip has risen to 56.
On Wednesday, it was also reported that Tel Aviv was again subjected to massive rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. It was noted that Hamas fired about 210 rockets at Israel. In the Israeli city of Lod, two people were killed as a result of shelling from the Gaza Strip. Another person was seriously injured.
At the same time, Israel on the night of May 12 continued to strike back at key military targets of the radicals in the Gaza Strip.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov, discussed the situation by phone on Wednesday with the deputy chairman of the Hamas Politburo, Musa Abu-Marzouk. Bogdanov focused on the immediate cessation of violence in the aggravation of the situation between the countries.
On May 11, it became known that a 13-story building collapsed after an airstrike by the Israeli air Force in the Gaza Strip.
There has been a recent exchange of rocket attacks between Israel and Palestinian radicals from the Gaza Strip. The situation escalated after riots broke out at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. The clashes between the Palestinians and the security forces in particular were provoked by the decision of an Israeli court to seize the houses in the Sheikh Jarrah quarter from the Arabs living there in favor of Jewish settlers on the grounds that they owned the housing until 1948.
