According to a report in the Palestinian media on Wednesday, Egypt was demanding that “Israel hold its aggression” towards the Gaza Strip hours after Israeli aircraft launched airstrikes there in response to a rockets fired into Israel by unidentified terrorists, landing in the Gan Yavne area near Ashkelon, causing no deaths or injuries. Security forces of the Islamist terror militia Hamas reportedly arrested several members of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in an effort to end the rocket fire and the resulting retaliatory strikes from Israel. “We see Hamas as being responsible for what happens in the territory of Gaza, and we will not tolerate any threat to residents of the south,” said Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon.Read More
