Hamas fires rockets at Israeli cities

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militant radical Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets astatine cities successful Israel's southbound connected Sunday successful effect to Israeli "massacres" of civilians successful Gaza.

Israel's subject said astir 10 projectiles were fired, but astir successfully intercepted. Israel's Channel 12 reported a nonstop deed successful the confederate metropolis of Ashkelon.

Israeli exigency services said they were treating 1 idiosyncratic for shrapnel injuries and teams were en way to locations of fallen rockets. Smashed car windows and debris laic strewn connected a metropolis street, videos disseminated by Israeli exigency services showed.

The archetypal signifier of a ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas went into unit connected January 19 aft 15 months of warfare and progressive a halt to fighting, the merchandise of immoderate of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas, and the freeing of immoderate Palestinian prisoners.

However, Israel said connected March 19 that its forces resumed crushed operations successful the cardinal and confederate Gaza Strip. Both parties blamed 1 different for a stalemate successful the ceasefire talks.

More than 50,000 Palestinians person been killed by the Israeli violative successful Gaza, Palestinian officials say.

Israel began its violative aft thousands of Hamas-led gunmen attacked communities successful confederate Israel connected October 7, 2023, sidesplitting 1,200 radical and abducting 251 arsenic hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

(Reporting by Emily Rose, Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)