Injury to a home hit by a rocket is seen in Mishmeret, central Israel, Monday, March 25, 2019. An early morning rocket from the Gaza Strip struck a home in central Israel on Monday, wounding a number of individuals, an Israeli rescue service stated, in an eruption of violence that would set off one other spherical of violence shortly earlier than the Israeli election. (AP Photograph/Ariel Schalit)
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8:15 a.m.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is slicing brief his go to to Washington after a Gaza rocket assault on Israel.
Netanyahu described Monday morning’s rocket launch that struck a house in central Israel as a “prison assault” and vowed to strike again arduous. He says he’ll return to Israel to deal with the disaster shortly after assembly with President Donald Trump on Monday.
An Israeli rescue service stated the rocket from the Gaza Strip struck a home in central Israel, wounding seven individuals.
The sounds of air raid sirens awakened the residents of the residential Sharon space, northeast of Tel Aviv, sending them scurrying to bomb shelters. A powerful explosion adopted.
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6:15 a.m.
An early morning rocket from the Gaza Strip has struck a home in central Israel on Monday, wounding seven individuals, elevating issues the assault may set off one other spherical of violence shortly earlier than the Israeli election.
The sounds of air raid sirens awakened the residents of the residential Sharon space, northeast of Tel Aviv, on Monday, sending them scurrying to bomb shelters. A powerful sound of an explosion adopted.
The Israeli army says it recognized a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. Israeli police say the rocket hit a residential dwelling in the neighborhood of Mishmeret, north of town of Kfar Saba, setting off a fireplace and destroying the home.
The Magen David Adom rescue service stated it was treating seven individuals, together with two girls who had been reasonably wounded. The others, together with two kids and an toddler, had minor wounds.
