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Israeli fighter jets strike security bases in Gaza

Saturday, 19 September 2015


Israeli fighter jets have struck two national security bases and an empty field in the Gaza Strip, after rockets were earlier fired into southern Israel from the besieged territory.
One air strike targeted a national security base east of the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the strip, moderately injuring one Palestinian, medical sources said Saturday.
Another air strike hit a base east of Gaza City, in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, while a third hit an empty field in the north of the Gaza Strip in Beit Hanoun.
A group called the Brigade of Omar Hadidi, which is believed to be affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), claimed responsibility on Twitter for firing the grad rocket at Askelon.
The incidents came as violence between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces spread beyond the walls of Jerusalem's old city last Friday, with at least eight Palestinians shot in clashes in the occupied West Bank and Israeli policemen injured by firebombs in a restive part of the city, according to Al Jazeera.

--Samir--