ISRAEL/GAZA : At least seven Israelis were wounded on May 5 when fighters from the Hamas Movement launched a barrage of rockets at an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) site in the Kerem Shalom area on the triple Gaza Strip-Israel-Egypt border.
Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, said in a brief statement that the attack was carried out using locally-made Rujum 114mm unguided rockets.
The IDF said that at least ten projectiles were launched from the city of Rafah in southern Gaza and struck Kerem Shalom. According to Hebrew media, seven people were wounded in the rocket attack with several of them listed in serious condition.
Following the attack, the IDF launched a series of airstrikes on Rafah and announced that it had shuttered the Kerem Shalom Crossing the Gaza for humanitarian aid trucks.
The rocket attack came amid a new round of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas on an agreement that would include a ceasefire and secure the release of Israelis captured during the October 7 surprise attack from Gaza and Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. Reports suggest that at least some progress has been made, although Israel is still against a permanent ceasefire and wants to continue to occupy some parts of the Strip.
In fact, Israel is even still threatening to launch a ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are currently taking shelter.
The Israeli war on Gaza has so far claimed the lives of 34,683 Palestinians and left more than 78,018 others wounded, according to the latest update by the Hamas-run health ministry in the Strip. Most of the victims were women and children.
In addition to the high number of casualties, the Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the Strip’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Hamas’ rocket attack on Kerem Shalom highlights the failure of the war. The IDF didn’t even manage to degrade the military capabilities of Hamas and other Palestinian armed factions in Gaza.
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