Israel Update: Hamas Launches
Rockets At Holy City
ISRAEL
The Israel Project
Following a support visit to the
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by
Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham
Kandil, Palestinian terrorists fired
a rocket at the Israeli capital of
Jerusalem on Friday, sending
residents running for bomb
shelters. The rocket landed
outside the city, which is Israel’s
capital and largest city, and which
is holy to Jews, Christians, and
Muslims.
The attack marks a significant
escalation in the fighting
surrounding Israel’s Operation
Pillar of Defense, and analysts are
likely to link Hamas’s willingness
to risk widening violence to
backing it receives from Egypt
and other regional actors. Egypt’s
support for Hamas has put it at
odds with the United States.
Meanwhile Hamas Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh led a Gaza crowd
in chants of “Long Live Egypt”
today.
Hamas used social media to brag
that the missile with which the
group targeted Jerusalem, the so-
called M75, was an named after a
Hamas leader assassinated by
Israel in 2003, and that the 75
represents the missiles
75km-80km range. One of Israel’s
primary goals in Operation Pillar
of Defense is to degrade Hamas’s
arsenal of advanced weaponry,
which the terror group had been
using more and more often in the
weeks leading up to the operation.

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