{"id":45919,"date":"2019-05-04T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45919"},"modified":"2019-05-04T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T15:35:32","slug":"hamas-launches-nearly-100-rockets-in-an-hour-on-israel-in-massive-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45919","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Launches Nearly 100 Rockets In An Hour On Israel In Massive Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-05-04\/hamas-launches-nearly-100-rockets-hour-israel-massive-escalation\">Hamas Launches Nearly 100 Rockets In An Hour On Israel In Massive Escalation<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Palestinian militants launched&nbsp;<strong>over 90&nbsp;rockets into Israel within the span of merely an hour<\/strong>&nbsp;early Saturday following following a tit-for-tat series of escalations that began with Gaza border incidents on Friday, including two Palestinians shot by Israeli soldiers during protests.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/gazanew.jpg?itok=xWSD7V7k\">E<em>xplosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Saturday, May 4. Image source: AP\/Times of Israel<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to early reports, there have been no casualties in Israel following the intense volley, and on the Gaza side one person has died as a result of Israeli Air Force retaliatory strikes with three others wounded,&nbsp;according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some unconfirmed reports of injuries on the Israeli side, including injuries of Israeli civilians after a rocket&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotiridi\/status\/1124652322787856386\">reportedly<\/a>impacted a school in a town called&nbsp;Kiryat Gat. The IDF confirmed its Iron Dome defensive measures were active throughout the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotiridi\/status\/1124667015610945537\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/1124666856546152448\/pu\/img\/68X_ikBvTJTCizED?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"Embedded video\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotiridi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1080598812257894400\/IWPmMtT8_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotiridi\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotiridi\/status\/1124667015610945537\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_\/status\/1124662630973677568\">Replying to @sotiridi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Breaking?src=hash\">#Breaking<\/a>: Just in &#8211; Video of a rocket from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hash\">#Gaza<\/a> fell into a field in the region of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ashkelon?src=hash\">#Ashkelon<\/a>, destroying partially a side of a building, where one male was critically injured after debris hit him from the explosion in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Israel?src=hash\">#Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched a massive counterattack on Gaza targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the IDF Spokesperson confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas Launches Nearly 100 Rockets In An Hour On Israel In Massive Escalation Palestinian militants launched&nbsp;over 90&nbsp;rockets into Israel within the span of merely an hour&nbsp;early Saturday following following a tit-for-tat series of escalations that began with Gaza border incidents on Friday, including two Palestinians shot by Israeli soldiers during protests.&nbsp;Explosion caused by an Israeli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6116,19567,18460,1049,24062,1048],"class_list":["post-45919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israeli-defense-forces","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45920,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45919\/revisions\/45920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}