Israel claims to have detected ‘suspicious aerial target’ launched from Gaza

By Abdelraouf Arnaout

JERUSALEM (AA) - The Israeli army claimed on Wednesday that it detected a "suspicious aerial target" launched from Gaza toward the nearby settlement.

“A suspicious aerial target infiltrated from Gaza and landed in the Gaza envelope area,” the Israeli army claimed in a statement.

The incident caused no injuries, according to the statement, which did not specify where the target landed or where it was launched from.

Meanwhile, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, al-Quds Brigades, stated in a post on Telegram that they "shelled with heavy mortar shells the Kerem Shalom and Sofa military positions east of Rafah in southern Gaza," without providing further details.

Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas.

More than 37,350 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and more than 85,400 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Over eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul