Israel hits Gaza after rocket attack as Jerusalem tensions escalate

Israel carried out its first air strikes on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions soar after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy site.

Israel carried out its first air strikes on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday in response to a missile fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions soar after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy site.

Warning sirens sounded in southern Israel Monday night after the rocket was fired from the enclave controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, the first such incident since early January.

The projectile crashed into the sea off Tel Aviv.

“One rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. The rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome Air Defense System,” the
Israeli occupation forces

Hours later the Israeli air force said it had hit a Hamas weapons manufacturing site in retaliation.