Israel hits Gaza with air strikes as tensions escalate.
Tensions remain high after a night of heavy weapons fire between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Dozens of rockets fired from Gaza lit up the sky, following the killing of at least more than 15 people in Israeli air strikes including Palestinian Freedom fighter Tayseer Jabari.
Israel said the strikes followed an “immediate threat” from his Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group.
“An Israeli air strike has hit a UN school in central Gaza where hundreds of displaced people were staying”
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A five-year-old girl in Gaza also died, local health officials said, and dozens more were injured.
PIJ responded by firing more than 100 rockets into Israel overnight “in an initial response”.
Most were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence shield, but sirens sounded in a number of Israeli cities throughout the night.
As Israel hits Gaza with air strikes, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had resumed rocket strikes against multiple militant positions in Gaza, continuing the attacks into the early hours of the morning.
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
It is bordered by Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, Egypt, the Gaza Strip and the Red Sea to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.
