The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it had launched a “missile strike on the enemy in occupied Jerusalem in response to his crimes and aggression against the Holy City,” after the expiration of a deadline set for the occupation to withdraw its soldiers from the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and release all detainees “during a donation. Last Jerusalem, “it ended at 6 pm today.
Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the Jerusalem police chief ordered the settlers’ march to stop immediately after the sound of warning sirens in the city, and video footage showed settlers participating in the march dispersing if they heard whistles.
The Israeli army announced that 7 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip towards Jerusalem, and said in a statement, “In follow-up to the warnings in the Jerusalem area and its environs, the talk about launching 7 rockets from the Gaza Strip, (the anti-missile system) Iron Dome intercepted only one of them.
In a related context, the Israeli army reported in a separate statement that an anti-tank missile was fired from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israel, without further details, and warning sirens sounded in Ashkelon, Sderot and the Gaza envelope area.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, said that it bombed the city of Sderot with 30 rockets, and claimed responsibility for targeting an Israeli military vehicle in eastern Gaza with a guided missile, and confirmed that the vehicle was hit.
Later, the Al-Jazeera correspondent said that a number of Palestinians, including children, were wounded by the Israeli shelling of the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel had announced the transfer of aircraft traffic from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv (center) to alternative routes.
The Israeli army announced the closure of a number of main roads in the settlements near the Gaza Strip, and the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said that this step comes in anticipation of the launch of an anti-tank missile from the Strip at an Israeli car.
On Monday morning, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, using rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas, and wounded more than 215 Palestinians, including paramedics, according to a statement by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.