This article is about the ongoing disputes between Palestinians and Israel’s, and builds off of the tension that has been rising in the past few weeks. This article specifically talks about how Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired mortars at Israel, and Israel has responded with air strikes on militant positions in Gaza. This attack comes right after the incident where Israeli snipers opened fire on Palestinians, during a mass protest on the Gaza-Israel border. The majority of the mortar fire was shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, but some mortars got through the system and one specifically landed in the yard of a kindergarten slightly wounding a worker. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli military will respond very forcefully to the attacks, which he blamed on Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement. The article also reports that within the last week machine-gun fire from Gaza hit houses and vehicles in the Israeli border town of Sderot, an Israeli tank fired and killed four militants in Gaza, and a member of Hamas was killed after Israeli soldiers caught a group attempting to breach the border and carry out an attack. These attacks and the rising occurrence of these attacks represent rising tension between these two sides, and the international community is watching this situation closely.
-Noah Parrill
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