{"id":20024,"date":"2018-10-27T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20024"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:24:36","slug":"israel-says-syria-and-iran-behind-gaza-rocket-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20024","title":{"rendered":"Israel says Syria and Iran behind Gaza rocket attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"102.606903658\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Israeli army has accused the Syrian government of instructing a Palestinian group to fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza with Iran&#8217;s support, and vowed to respond where it chose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The rockets that were launched against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel<\/a>&#8230; we know that the orders, incentives were given from Damascus with the clear involvement of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards&#8217; Quds Force,&#8221; army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said on Saturday, referring to Iran&#8217; foreign operations unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Conricus told reporters Israel&#8217;s response would not be &#8220;limited geographically&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli fighter jets struck dozens of sites across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/city\/gaza.html\">Gaza Strip<\/a> early on Saturday as fighters fired about 30 rockets into Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire in several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting followed a bloody day of border protests, in which Israeli forces shot and killed five Palestinians protesting along the perimeter fence dividing Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The clash complicated the mission of Egyptian mediators, who have intensified shuttle diplomacy to achieve calm and prevent a full-blown conflict between Hamas and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/israeli-jets-hit-80-targets-gaza-rocket-fire-protests-181027060228965.html\">had struck<\/a> about 80 sites across Gaza by early Saturday morning, including a security headquarters building. Air raid sirens sounded throughout the night in southern Israel, with firing some 30 rockets, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>It said about 10 rockets were intercepted by its Iron Dome rocket defence system, two landed prematurely in Gaza and the rest fell in open areas. Israel&#8217;s military chief, General Gadi Eisenkot, convened an emergency meeting of top security officials, the army added, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic Jihad, a smaller group, implicitly claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. It issued a statement saying that it normally exercises restraint, but it &#8220;can no longer stand idle before the continued killing of innocents and bloodshed by the Israeli occupation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli army has accused the Syrian government of instructing a Palestinian group to fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza with Iran&#8217;s support, and vowed to respond where it chose. &#8220;The rockets that were launched against Israel&#8230; we know that the orders, incentives were given from Damascus with the clear involvement of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}