Rocket attacks on Israel escalated Thursday, with the north of the country targeted from Lebanon and the south from the Gaza Strip after Israeli fighter jets hit Hamas weapons-manufacturing and storage sites.
Tensions have been building with the week-long Jewish Passover holiday, overlapping with the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Late Wednesday, renewed clashes broke out between Israeli police and Palestinians inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, a flashpoint.
A rocket fired into northern Israel from Lebanese territory was successfully intercepted, according to the Israeli army, while the state-run Lebanese news agency said Israel struck back. Sirens sounded in the towns of Shlomi and Moshav Betzet and in the Galilee region. Two people in Galilee were injured, including a man hit by shrapnel and a woman as she ran to a shelter, Israeli medical aid society Magen David Adom said.
