Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that after Operation Shield and Arrow began, about 400 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip. It has been reported DEA News.
“About 400 rockets were fired at Israel, about a quarter of them fell on the territory of the Gaza Strip, a significant part of the rockets landed in open areas, some of the rockets were shot down and unfortunately there were many hits of houses. recorded,” Gallant said.
Earlier, the press service of the Israel Defense Forces said on a Telegram channel that air raid sirens sounded for the second time in a day in Tel Aviv and its suburbs. It was also reported that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) received a message from the Israeli authorities through intermediaries that it is ready for a ceasefire with the Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip. Representatives of Egypt, Qatar and the UN are participating in contacts between the radical Palestinian groups in Gaza and the Israeli authorities.
Prior to that, the Israeli news agency Ynet reported, based on data from the Israel Defense Forces, that more than 200 rockets were fired at Israel from the territory of the Gaza Strip, of which about 50 did not reach the country or fell into the sea. .