Air defense sirens sounded in southern Israel today, but their activation was due to machine gun fire against Israeli territory, no rockets or mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip, the general staff informed in the early hours of the morning.
“Following a previous report of air defense sirens being fired in southern Israel, we said the warning was due to machine gun fire from the Gaza Strip against Israeli territory and not to rocket fire,” he said in a statement.
Earlier, the same source reported that sirens were heard in the Kfar Aza kibbutz, near the border with the Palestinian enclave.
Earlier, the Israeli Air Force launched new bombings against positions of the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip, for the second time since the beginning of this week. No casualties have been reported so far.
It was the first time that air defense sirens sounded in southern Israel since May 21, when the ceasefire agreement that ended the 11-day war (May 10-21) between Israel and Hamas’s armed force came into force. of the Islamist faction in power in the small Palestinian enclave of two million inhabitants.
