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Flight alerts have sounded in the Tel Aviv area and elsewhere in Israel since rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, CNN reports. It is about tens of rockets that were fired from several places around Gaza early Saturday morning, according to the AFP news agency’s reporter on the ground in the Palestinian area.
A 70-year-old woman is reported to have been killed after a rocket hit a building in southern Israel, according to Israeli rescue service Magen David Adom. Several others have been injured after being hit by shrapnel at another location.
Israel took possession of Gaza in connection with the Six-Day War in 1967. Since 2007, when the terror-labeled Islamist group Hamas gained power in Gaza after a disputed election, the area has been subject to a blockade by Israel. Militant Palestinian groups and Israel have fought several devastating wars since then.