Hamas launches rockets into central Israel

Regional media quoted Palestinian and Israeli sources as saying that the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket into central Israel on the night of August 25.

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Rafah city, Gaza Strip on May 14, 2024. Photo: THX/TTXVN

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the rocket was launched from the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza towards Rishon LeZion, a city south of Tel Aviv, triggering an air raid alert system in Israel.

The missile is said to have fallen into an open field and caused no casualties.

Later, in a statement, the Hamas movement claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the movement, carried out the rocket launch in response to Israeli attacks on Palestinians.

The rocket attack took place in the context of indirect ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel resuming in Cairo (Egypt) but with no concrete progress yet.

On the same day, the Hamas movement said it had rejected new conditions put forward by Israel in ceasefire talks in Gaza, raising doubts about the possibility of a breakthrough in the latest US-backed effort to end the more than 10-month conflict in the Palestinian territory.

Hamas said Israel had backed out of its commitment to withdraw from the Philadelphia Corridor and set other new conditions, which it identified as the sticking point in the negotiations brokered by the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

“We will not accept negotiations on withdrawing what we agreed on July 2 or new conditions,” senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said on Al-Aqsa TV.

According to Mr. Hamdan, Hamas has passed on to the mediators its response to the latest proposal, affirming that the information given by Washington that the parties are about to reach an agreement is not true.

According to VNA

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/hamas-phong-ten-lua-vao-khu-vuc-mien-trung-israel-post755698.html