{"id":30148,"date":"2019-01-22T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30148"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:22:54","slug":"israel-says-it-struck-hamas-posts-in-gaza-after-shots-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30148","title":{"rendered":"Israel says it struck Hamas posts in Gaza after shots fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83.1254379818\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Israeli forces have shelled Palestinian positions in the besieged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/city\/gaza.html\">Gaza Strip<\/a> in what it said was a response to gunfire from the enclave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In a statement, the Israeli military said on Tuesday it struck a post belonging to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/hamas.html\">Hamas<\/a> &#8211; the group that governs the enclave &#8211; after shots were fired earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"7.40506329114\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Shots were fired at IDF troops guarding Israel\u2019s border with Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>In response, an IDF tank struck a Hamas military post in the northern Gaza Strip. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xYaF3Mlyad\">pic.twitter.com\/xYaF3Mlyad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDF\/status\/1087667173001256961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Hamas said two of its military wing&#8217;s observation posts had been hit near Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A fragile truce between Hamas and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel<\/a>, brokered by Egypt, has brought relative calm to the enclave in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was designed to restore calm and end two days of Israeli aerial attacks on Gaza which began after Palestinian factions fired rockets at Israel in retaliation to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/gaza-officials-palestinians-killed-israeli-raid-181111211332303.html\">undercover Israeli operation that killed seven<\/a> people in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>At least 14 Palestinians and two Israelis were killed in those two days of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza, home to more than two million people, has been under a crippling Israeli and Egyptian-imposed blockade for 11 years that has imposed enormous barriers to the movement of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The siege has devastated the local economy, severely restricting the entry of food and access to basic services.<\/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>Israeli forces have shelled Palestinian positions in the besieged Gaza Strip in what it said was a response to gunfire from the enclave. In a statement, the Israeli military said on Tuesday it struck a post belonging to Hamas &#8211; the group that governs the enclave &#8211; after shots were fired earlier in the day.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30148","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\/30148","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=30148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}