{"id":43691,"date":"2024-05-05T21:44:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T21:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/hamas-claims-rocket-attack-that-closes-key-crossing-between-israel-and-gaza\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T21:44:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T21:44:52","slug":"hamas-claims-rocket-attack-that-closes-key-crossing-between-israel-and-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/hamas-claims-rocket-attack-that-closes-key-crossing-between-israel-and-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Claims Rocket Attack That Closes Key Crossing Between Israel and Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/05\/multimedia\/05mideast-crisis-gaza-rockets-hljq\/05mideast-crisis-gaza-rockets-hljq-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hamas Claims Rocket Attack That Closes Key Crossing Between Israel and Gaza\" title=\"Hamas Claims Rocket Attack That Closes Key Crossing Between Israel and Gaza\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas said on Sunday that its armed wing had fired rockets at Israeli forces near the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Gaza and Israel. Kan, Israel\u2019s public broadcaster, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kan.org.il\/content\/kan-news\/defense\/live-745187\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that the attack injured several people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military said about 10 rockets had been fired from an area near the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt toward Kerem Shalom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kerem Shalom is one of the few crossings through which humanitarian aid is able to enter the Gaza Strip. After the attack on Sunday, the army said it was closed to the passage of aid trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry condemned the attack and said it showed that Hamas was not interested in having aid enter the territory, parts of which a United Nations official says are experiencing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/04\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-famine-mccain-israel.html\" title=\"\">\u201ca full-blown famine.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The ministry said that while the army was \u201cfacilitating humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, terrorists fire rockets into the same area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIsrael remains committed to providing lifesaving aid while Hamas remains committed to destroying lives,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the attack, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel\u2019s national security minister and a far-right member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s cabinet, urged Mr. Netanyahu to authorize a long-anticipated military assault on Rafah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe did not attack Gaza and we got Oct. 7,\u201d Mr. Ben-Gvir said in a statement <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itamarbengvir\/status\/1787095404544225544\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted online<\/a>. \u201cWe didn\u2019t attack Rafah and we got a precision attack, Netanyahu, go to Rafah now!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/05\/world\/middleeast\/hamas-rocket-kerem-shalom-israel.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas said on Sunday that its armed wing had fired rockets at Israeli forces near the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Gaza and Israel. Kan, Israel\u2019s public broadcaster, reported that the attack injured several people. The Israeli military said about 10 rockets had been fired from an area near the Rafah crossing between Gaza and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/05\/multimedia\/05mideast-crisis-gaza-rockets-hljq\/05mideast-crisis-gaza-rockets-hljq-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2601,4811,21551,24156,43,5552,38,2733,88],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43693,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43691\/revisions\/43693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}