After the Israel military attacked Palestinian Muslims who were praying at the Al Aqsa Mosque, now it is the turn of Palestinian militants to strike back against Israel. The attacks carried out by Israel on the Al Aqasa mosque can be said to be embarrassing attacks throughout history because Israel attacked civilians who were unarmed and praying. This is a completely disgraceful attitude by the Israeli military.
Palestinian militant Hamas fired more than 200 rockets at Israel in retaliation for the country's air strikes. Of the hundreds of rockets that were bombarded into Israel, some of them managed to penetrate the Iron Dome.
Get to know the Iron Dome System
For information, Iron Dome is an Israeli air defense system. Iron Dome was developed by Israeli companies Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, with financial and technical support from the United States.
Reporting from the AFP and The Washington Post, Wednesday (12/5/2021), air raid sirens were heard all over Tel Aviv, as hundreds of rockets continued to rain on Israel. Israeli spokesman Jonathan Conricus said that more than 90 percent of the rockets bombarded by Hamas were intercepted by the Iron Dome.
Video broadcast by Channel 12 shows flames rising from what looks like a large fuel barrel near the city of Ashkelon in Israel's Mediterranean, south of Tel Aviv.
In addition, Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said that an empty bus in Holon, south of Tel Aviv, was also hit by a Hamas air strike. A rocket also crashed at Rishon Letzion in central Israel.
Two Israeli women were reported killed by the rockets fired from Gaza. The local Barzilai medical center said it was treating 70 wounded people.
They kills Palestinian children
As is known, this Hamas air attack was triggered by Israeli violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, East Jerusalem. Hamas gave Israel an ultimatum to withdraw from the compound which was then responded to by Israeli rocket attacks.
The air raids then heated up. As a result, 35 Palestinians, 10 of them children, were reported killed.