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Israeli aircraft struck dozens of targets across the Gaza Strip on Saturday following rocket barrages on southern Israel.
The flare-up in violence, which caused no serious casualties, followed another deadly confrontation on Friday in which five Palestinian protesters along the Gaza-Israel border were killed by Israeli troops.

Palestinians have gathered for protests along the border at least weekly since March 30.
The army did not comment on the deaths but said around 16,000 “rioters and demonstrators” had gathered, with some setting tyres alight and hurling rocks, firebombs and grenades towards soldiers.
The Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks, saying they were in response to the deaths. Around midday on Saturday, it said in a statement it had agreed to a cease fire.

The Israeli military said it viewed the rocket assault “severely”. Hamas did not claim responsibility for the rockets, but Israel holds it responsible for any fire from the coastal enclave.
“Overnight, dozens of rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip at communities in southern Israel,” the army said. It said the Iron Dome intercepted around 10 of them, while two rockets came down inside the Gaza Strip and the others hit “open areas”.
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Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus accused Syria and Iran of involvement in the rocket attack.
“Orders and incentives were given from Damascus with a clear involvement of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards al-Quds force,” Conricus told reporters. “Our response is not limited geographically.”
Israeli doctors said seven civilians were being treated for shock.

The armed wing of Islamic Jihad, the second largest militant group in Gaza and a close Hamas ally, hailed the rocket fire in a statement on Saturday morning.
The “resistance is considering expanding the response in number and type, if the enemy continues its aggression against our people”, it said.
At least 16 killed and 1,400 hurt near Israeli border in Gaza’s bloodiest day since 2014
Israeli fighter jets, helicopters and drones struck around 95 sites, including weapons manufacturing facilities and military compounds including Hamas’s security services headquarters, the military said. Other targets included the entrance to a tunnel dug to infiltrate and attack Israel, and an anti-aircraft observation post, it said.
Gaza Health Ministry official Ashra al-Qedra said an air strike on northern Gaza levelled an empty four-floor building. The Israeli army said it was a major Hamas base.

A hospital near one of the targets was slightly damaged, he said.
A spokesman for the militants said an Egyptian-mediated truce had been reached.
“After contacts between the Islamic Jihad leadership and the brothers in Egypt it was agreed that a comprehensive ceasefire will begin immediately,” spokesman Daoud Shehab said. “The Islamic Jihad will abide by the ceasefire if the occupation (Israel) does the same.”
Gaza protests ‘cannot continue’, warns Israeli defence minister
US President Donald Trump’s peace envoy Jason Greenblatt condemned the rocket fire.
“More rockets from Gaza into Israel. Another night where parents are ushering terrified children to cover. Violence will not build futures for anyone,” he said on Twitter.
Bloomberg, Reuters, Agence France-Presse


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Israelis pound Gaza after Hamas rockets hit Israel in retaliation for Palestinian deaths on border

An explosion after Israeli bombing of Gaza on October 27, 2018. Photo: Reuters

A relative of Palestinian protester Othman Ladadwah, who was killed in a clash with Israeli soldiers, mourns during his funeral in the village of Al-Mazraa Al-Gharbeya, in the occupied West Bank October 27, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

(181026) -- GAZA, Oct. 26, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli soldiers on the Gaza-Israel border, east of Gaza City, on Oct. 26, 2018. Four Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured Friday during clashes with Israeli soldiers stationed on the border between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel, medics said. (Xinhua)

TOPSHOT - Members of the Palestinian civil defence search through the rubble of a building following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on October 27, 2018. - A barrage of rockets from Gaza hit Israel during the night, the army said October 27, hours after five Palestinians were killed during clashes on the Israeli border, in a flareup that could jeopardise truce efforts. In response to the rockets, Israeli fighter jets, helicopters and drones struck "approximately 80 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip". (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza Strip October 27, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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Israel’s military accused Syria and Iran of involvement in the rocket attack, which caused no casualties



Israel’s military accused Syria and Iran of involvement in the rocket attack, which caused no casualties.


Israelis pound Gaza after Hamas rockets hit Israel in retaliation for Palestinian deaths on border

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Israel’s military accused Syria and Iran of involvement in the rocket attack, which caused no casualties