Tel Aviv | Palestinian militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets on Monday night (Tuesday AEST), and Israeli aircraft pounded their facilities in lethal raids, after a showdown over Jerusalem erupted into one of the most intense confrontations between the sides in years.
More than 200 rockets were fired into Israel, and several people were wounded in attacks that included direct hits on buildings, the Israeli military said on Tuesday. Israel struck 130 targets of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups, including two tunnels, a Hamas military intelligence facility, and rocket production and storage sites. Fifteen militants died in the raids, it said.
