Hamas claims responsibility for rocket attack into Israel

Gaza, May 10 (UNI) Militants of the Islamic Resistance Movement aka Hamas on Monday claimed responsibility for firing rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
The militant group released a video in which a masked spokesperson is seen saying
“Hamas military wing al-Qassam Brigades struck occupied Jerusalem with a barrage of rockets,” said a masked spokesman of al-Qassam Brigades, better known as Abu Obeida.
The spokesman added. “Firing the rockets was a response to the occupier’s crimes and aggression against the holy city and harassing our people at Al-Aqsa Mosque and the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah,”
Media reports quote eyewitnesses saying that they saw dozens of rockets being launched and white smokes rising into the sky.
They also heard the sound of explosions after Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system intercepted some of the rockets. The Israeli military said they detected seven rockets fired from Gaza toward Jerusalem, adding one was intercepted by Iron Dome and rocket sirens blared across southern Israel.
An Israeli man was lightly hurt by shrapnel from anti-tank missile near the Gaza border, according to the Israeli military. Meanwhile, al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), claimed responsibility for attacking an Israeli army jeep near the borders between the northern Gaza Strip and Israel.
The PIJ said in a press statement that it launched more than 30 rockets from Gaza into southern Israel, adding the attacks are “a response to the crimes against Al-Aqsa Mosque and against our people in East Jerusalem.”