A terrorist rocket was fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip for the second night in a row on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces announced.
A launch was identified that crossed from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory and landed in an open area,” the military said, adding that there were no casualties in the terrorists’ aerial assault, which had activated sirens in the Israeli border community of Kibbutz Nirim.
On Tuesday evening, Palestinian terrorists fired two rockets at the Jewish state from the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The projectiles landed in open areas; no injuries or damages were reported.
Air-raid alerts were activated to warn civilians in the border area “in accordance with policy,” shortly after a ballistic-missile attack launched by Iran had also triggered sirens in Israel’s south, the IDF added.
On Sunday evening, Gaza terrorists launched one projectile at Israel. The aerial attack triggered air-raid sirens in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Moshav Ein HaBesor and Kibbutz Magen, the Home Front Command announced.
The day prior, four rockets were shot into southern Israel in two separate attacks. They impacted in open areas, and no casualties were reported.
As of February, some 85% of the 64,000 residents in the Gaza Envelope were back home, with 11,000 still living in temporary, state-funded accommodations elsewhere. Almost all had been evacuated following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The rocket attacks came amid continued IDF ground operations across the Strip as part of “Gideon’s Chariots,” a campaign with the stated goal of dismantling Hamas’s remaining military capabilities, taking control of key areas in Gaza, and securing the release of the remaining 53 captives.