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Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday targeting the Islamic Jihad militant group that left at least 10 dead — including including a senior militant.
Israel said the strike came in response to an “imminent threat” following the arrest of another senior militant in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.
Palestinian militants retaliated and fired a barrage of rockets into Israel just hours later, pushing the two sides closer to another all-out war.
Images broadcast by Israeli television stations captured a string of missiles lighting up the sky as explosions rang out and air raid sirens wailed in central and southern Israel as darkness fell.
The Islamic Jihad militant group claimed it had fired more than 100 rockets in Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv.
Israel’s ambulance service said there were no immediate reports of casualties in the country.
It came after Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid declared in a televised speech that his country launched the initial attack to target the Islamic Jihad group due to what he described as “concrete threats.
