Two Dead and 25 Wounded After Hamas Rocket Fire Met With Retaliatory Airstrike From IDF As Jerusalem Tensions Rise!!

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1 Dead and 25 Wounded After Hamas Rocket Fire Met With Retaliatory Airstrike From IDF As Jerusalem Tensions Rise by Geoffrey Grider The Israel Air Force struck two Hamas targets in Gaza in response to earlier rocket fire, an IDF Spokesman said on Friday. EDITOR'S NOTE: As of this writing, eastern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip is a powder keg just waiting to explode. The leader of Hamas said this about Jerusalem - "United Jerusalem is Arab and Muslim, and it is the capital of the state of Palestine, all of Palestine,” Haniyeh said, referring to territory including Israel as well as the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank." Think this will all just die down and people will forget about it? Not a chance. This type of conflict is what Muslims in general and Palestinians in particular live for, and this won't go away. Ever.  A commander in Hamas's armed wing, Mahar Atalla, reportedly died from wounds inflicted in clashes with the IDF earlier in the day. One rocket struck the city of Sderot in Israel's south, a spokesperson for Sderot reported. The rocket caused damage to several vehicles, though no casualties were reported. “We should call for and we should work on launching an intifada in the face of the Zionist enemy,” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech in Gaza. Haniyeh, elected the group’s overall leader in May, urged Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs to hold rallies against the U.S decision on Friday, calling it a “day of rage”. “Let December 8 be the first day of the intifada against the occupier,” he said. source Reports have surfaced that the Nasser Salah Eddine brigades, a Palestinian militant organization operating out of the Gaza Strip, has claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. IAF fighter jets, reportedly hit two targets, a Hamas training compound and an arms depot. The Palestinian Health Ministry said at least 25 people were wounded in the strikes, including six children. As the report of the wounded emerged, another rocket alarm siren went off in southern Israel, the fourth this evening. Earlier, Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense System intercepted a rocket fired towards Israel from Gaza, the IDF spokesperson's office said in a statement. No one was hurt and no damage was reported. Additionally, rocket sirens sounded in Sdot Negev Regional Council and in Bnei Shimon. The IDF reported that rockets were fired toward Israel from Gaza, but no landings have yet been discovered. Troops are currently searching the area. Alarms were heard in several other communities in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip. There were some reports of an explosion seen over the city of Sderot. Earlier today a Palestinian protester was shot dead and around 30 others were injured in clashes along the border fence with Israel, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. source Update From The BBC With The Latest Developments: Two Palestinian men died after Israeli troops fired on crowds in Gaza during clashes on Friday Israel said it intercepted one missile, another was found on wasteland and another landed in Sderot late on Friday, though no casualties were reported Israel's air force conducted a number of raids on Hamas sites on Friday - the Palestinian Health Ministry told AFP that 25 people were injured More air strikes were conducted in the early hours of Saturday, hours after the missile hit Sderot. The full extent of the damage is not yet clear Earlier on Friday, Fathi Hammad, a senior Hamas leader, said anyone seeking to move their embassy to Jerusalem was "an enemy of the Palestinians". Speaking before the United Nations on Friday, US ambassador Nikki Haley said the US "recognises the obvious; that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel". She said the US continued to be "committed to achieving a lasting peace agreement", and accused the UN of bias, saying it "has outrageously been one of the world's foremost centres of hostility towards Israel". Media captionUS ambassador Nikki Haley calls UN hostile to Israel "Israel will never be, and never should be, bullied into an agreement by the United Nations or by any collection of countries that have proven their disregard for Israel's security," Mrs Haley said. Israel had deployed extra battalions to the West Bank in anticipation of violence after Palestinian leaders called for protests after Friday prayers. At least 217 Palestinians were wounded in confrontations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian medics said.