Warning sirens sounded at dawn. Hundreds of rockets were fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, October 7th. Hamas’ armed wing immediately announced that it had launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. According to Israeli emergency services, these rocket attacks left at least one dead, a woman in her 60s and 15 injured. Undoubtedly fearful of an aftershock, hundreds of residents in northeast Gaza fled their homes to push further into the area, an AFP journalist noted. Follow our live stream.
“More than 5,000 missiles” claimed. “We have decided to put an end to all crimes of the occupation” and “more than 5,000 rockets” have been fired since Saturday morning, Mohammad Deif, commander of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said in an audio recording broadcast by Al-Aqsa TV, TV station of Hamas, the Islamist movement in power in Gaza.
Woman killed in southern Israel. A woman in her 60s was killed “by a direct hit” and 15 other people were killed in southern Israel by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, said Magen David Adom, Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross.
“Terrorists” have invaded Israeli territory. The Israeli army reported the infiltration of “an unknown number of terrorists” from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. “Residents of neighboring areas of the Gaza Strip have been asked to stay at home,” the army added, as dozens of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel for more than an hour.
The end of the ceasefire observed since May. The operation, claimed by Hamas, ends a ceasefire that has been generally observed since the end of a five-day war in May. Israel then launched an offensive against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, which left 34 Palestinians and one Israeli woman dead.