According to recent reports, a rocket launched from Gaza slammed into a house in southern Israel on Thursday, the military said, causing no injuries but adding to the mounting tensions surrounding the suspected revenge killing of an Arab teen in Jerusalem.
Israeli media showed footage of a large hole in the house, in the southern border town of Sderot, where earlier another house was struck, causing heavy damage to the structure and a nearby road and knocking out electricity throughout the town. No one was wounded in that strike.
On Tuesday night, the Israeli Air Force carried out what it called "precision strikes" on 34 "terror targets" in the Gaza Strip and a Palestinian teen from the group Hamas was shot dead when he threw a grenade at the forces carrying out the arrest raid. The family accused extremist Jews of killing him in revenge for the deaths of three Israeli teens, who went missing more than two weeks before their bodies were found in a field in the West Bank.
The suspected killing have ignited clashes in east Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli forces, who responded with stun grenades and rubber-coated billers. The rioters set tires ablaze and torched three light-rail train shelters.
East Jerusalem was quiet Thursday morning but police said units were still patrolling the area. An Associated Press cameraman reportedly filmed Hebrew graffiti reading “death to Israel” and “death to Jews.”
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