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Hamas claims rockets fired at central Israel were self-activated
Terror group says it’s on war footing because it has intelligence indicating Israel planning attack before elections
A senior member of Hamas’s military wing said Thursday that rockets recently fired from the Gaza Strip toward central Israel launched on their own due to the terror group’s heightened war footing.
“The early, automatic activation of the rockets from Gaza was the result of a decision of the resistance’s leadership to heighten its fighting preparedness,” the unnamed Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades official told Al-Jazeera.
The terror group claimed to have intelligence indicating that Israel intended to attack Gaza before the April 9 elections, and said it would respond accordingly.
“We decided to bolster our fighting preparedness after the occupation’s determination to carry out a hostile act before the elections came to light,” the official told Al-Jazeera.
A rocket fired from Gaza struck a residential building in central Israel early Monday morning, injuring seven people, including two small children, and leveling the structure.
The attack set off several days of fighting and increased tension between the Gaza-ruling Hamas and Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces responded to the incident with airstrikes on scores of Hamas targets and Palestinian terror groups launched dozens of rockets at Israeli communities in the Gaza periphery.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-claims-rockets-fired-at-central-israel-were-self-activated/