A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip crashed in Israel on Wednesday, the second in almost 48 hours but the first to hit Israeli soil in months, as authorities tried to calm the situation after days of tension in Jerusalem.
“A rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory,” the army said in a message, while local police explained that the shell crashed in a field in the Israeli city of Sderot without causing any injuries.
This is the second rocket launched from Gaza into Israel this week, but the first in months to hit Israeli territory.
On Monday, a rocket launched from Gaza was intercepted by the Israeli anti-missile shield “Iron Dome”.
After that launch, which was not claimed, Israeli aircraft bombed positions allegedly belonging to the Hamas terrorist movement.
Tensions remain high in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, especially following this weekend's clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in the Esplanade of Mosques in Jerusalem, the third holiest place in Islam and the holiest in Judaism under its name Temple Mount.
The presence of Jews - who can visit the esplanade under specific conditions and times, but cannot pray there under a tacit agreement - and of police officers on the spot during Ramadan was considered by Palestinians and several countries in the region as a provocative measure.
In this context, Israeli police on Wednesday night prevented hundreds of Jewish nationalist protesters from approaching the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City to avoid clashes that could provoke an escalation between Israel and Palestinian movements.
The police blocked the protesters, including many supporters of far-right MP Itamar Ben Gvir, who was banned from entering the area by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett early in the day.
For his part, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply concerned about the deterioration of the situation in Jerusalem,” his spokesman said Wednesday in New York.
On Friday and Sunday, clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police caused more than 170 injuries on the Esplanade of Mosques, as the celebrations of the Muslim month of Ramadan and Passover, coincide with the celebration of the Muslim month of Ramadan and Passover.
(With information from AFP)
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