Key takeaways:
- Israel and Palestinian militants have been exchanging fire in the Gaza Strip for the past five days.
- Two Palestinians were killed in a firefight in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.
- The conflict has resulted in the deaths of 28 Palestinians and four Israelis.
For the fifth consecutive day, Israel and Palestinian militants have been exchanging fire in the Gaza Strip. On Saturday, the Islamic Jihad militant group launched dozens of rockets, while the Israeli military responded with airstrikes.
In a separate incident, the Israeli military raided the Balata refugee camp near the northern city of Nablus, sparking a firefight that killed two Palestinians.
Meanwhile, missile shrapnel from the conflict struck an agricultural community in Israel’s southern Negev desert, severely wounding two Palestinians from Gaza in their 40s who had been working in Israel and moderately wounding another 36-year-old man, according to Israeli medics. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the two as 32-year-old Said Mesha and 19-year-old Adnan Araj.
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants has been escalating since Monday, when the Islamic Jihad militant group fired rockets at Israel in response to an Israeli airstrike that killed one of its commanders. Since then, the militant group has launched hundreds of rockets, while the Israeli military has responded with airstrikes targeting militant sites in Gaza.
The conflict has resulted in the deaths of at least 28 Palestinians, including 25 militants and three civilians, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. On the Israeli side, four civilians have been killed and dozens more have been injured.
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