Hamas shells Tel Aviv amid Israel onslaught on Gaza

Palestinian group, Hamas, said Monday it fired a volley of rockets on Tel Aviv in central Israel, for the first time in over a month, Anadolu Agency reports.

The group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said the rocket fire “was in response to Israeli massacres against civilians”.

Israeli Channel 12 reported that at least 12 rockets were launched towards Tel Aviv, with rocket warning sirens activated in central Israel for the first time in over a month.

According to the broadcaster, rockets were intercepted in the sky by the Iron Dome missile defence system.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a 7 October cross-border attack by Hamas, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.

However, since then, it has been revealed by Haaretz that helicopters and tanks of the Israeli army had, in fact, killed many of the 1,139 soldiers and civilians claimed by Israel to have been killed by the Palestinian Resistance.

Despite a provisional ruling Friday by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that ordered Tel Aviv to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza, Israel continued its onslaught against the coastal enclave where at  least 26,637 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and 65,387 injured since 7 October, according to Palestinian health authorities.

About 85 per cent of Gazans have been displaced by the Israeli onslaught, while all of them are food insecure, according to the UN. Hundreds of thousands of people are living without shelter, and less than half of aid trucks are entering the Territory before the start of the conflict.

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