The Israeli Army on Thursday launched new air strikes on terrorist targets of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the city of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
The offensive of the Israeli forces may be part of the response that in recent days has been giving to the launching of explosive balloons from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian civilians, which has caused some fires in southern Israel.
Pending confirmation from the Israeli authorities, only material damage has been reported so far. The tense calm that came with the ceasefire reached on May 20 after eleven days of clashes, has been broken again in recent days after the clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli security forces during the March of the Flags.
At least thirty Palestinians were injured in days in which several fires were recorded in southern Israel as a result of the launching of incendiary balloons by protesters.
What ceasefire? Gaza is again under heavy Israeli bombardment at this moment. pic.twitter.com/PKF8d8MV7M
— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) June 17, 2021
On May 20, Israel and Hamas reached an agreement for a ceasefire after two weeks of escalation of violence between rockets and missiles launched by the terrorist group on Israel and the consequent responses launched from the Hebrew country to strategic points in the attackers in the Gaza Strip . In this way, the Israeli Government breaks the ceasefire.
New President of Israel
The Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, approved last Sunday by 60 to 59 votes the inauguration of Naftali Bennett of the nationalist Yamina movement, as the new prime minister, a vote that ends more than a decade of Benjamin Netanyahu’s mandate.
Just before the vote, the Knesset has elected Mickey Levy, of the Yesh Atid party, as the new president, after obtaining 67 of the 120 votes in the House and thus beating his rival from the Shas party, Yaakov Margi , who has obtained 52 votes . Levy thus replaces Yariv Levin of Netanyahu’s Likud party.
Bennett comes to power thanks to a broad government coalition that covers almost the entire political spectrum and that will allow him to serve as prime minister for the next two years, until he is replaced by the leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, Yair. Lapid.
