CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hamas armed wing al-Qassam Brigades stated it launched a “large missile” assault on Tel Aviv on Sunday because the Israeli navy sounded sirens within the central metropolis warning of doable incoming rockets.
In an announcement on its Telegram channel on Sunday, al-Qassam Brigades stated the rockets have been launched in response to what it known as “Zionist massacres in opposition to civilians”.
Hamas Al-Aqsa TV stated the rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip.
Rocket sirens had not been heard in Tel Aviv for the previous 4 months. The rationale for the sirens was not instantly acknowledged by the Israeli navy.
Israeli emergency medical companies stated they’d acquired no reviews of casualties.
The assault signaled the Islamist faction was nonetheless in a position to fireplace long-range rockets regardless of greater than seven months of devastating Israeli navy offensive from the air and the bottom.
(Reporting by Nidal and al-Mughrabi Jaidaa Taha, and Emily Rose)
