Hamas Launches More Rockets Into Israel, Israel Fighter Jets Return Fire on Terror Targets

The Iron Dome air-defense system fires to intercept a rocket over the city of Ashdod, Israel, on July 8, 2014. Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images

JERUSALEM/GAZA–Hamas terrorists launched a rocket at Israel on Saturday night and four more before daybreak on Sunday triggering blaring sirens as thousands of Israelis ran to bomb shelters in southern Israel.

The rocket attacks drew retaliatory strikes by Israeli fighter jets on a number of Hamas positions in Gaza, all only a few days after the area’s most intense fighting since the 2014 war. Earlier this week on May 29, a barrage of over 100 mortar shells and rockets was fired toward several locations in Southern Israel. One Hamas mortar hit an Israeli kindergarten. A resulting ceasefire came into effect Wednesday morning.