The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, which is the armed wing of the Palestinian militia group Hamas, said it had hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa with an R-160 rocket.
As reported by Al Arabiya media, Thursday (12/10/2023), there has been no further information from the Hamas group regarding the rocket attack.
Meanwhile, in its latest statement, the Israeli military said that following a rocket warning in an area near Haifa about 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Gaza, "the launch of a rocket was identified from the Gaza Strip."
There was no information regarding the damage or whether there were any victims due to the Hamas rocket attack.
The war between Hamas and Israel currently continues. This war situation occurred after Hamas' sudden attack on Saturday (7/10). The worst attack in Israel's 75-year history left 1,200 people dead, according to the Israeli military. Most of them are civilians.
In Gaza, officials reported more than 1,000 people killed in persistent Israeli air and artillery strikes on the densely populated Palestinian enclave.
The UN said 11 of its staff had died in Gaza since Saturday, while the International Red Cross and Red Crescent said it lost five members.
In the occupied West Bank, at least four Palestinians were killed when armed Israeli settlers attacked a town in Nablus, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Israel has deployed troops, tanks and other heavy armored vehicles around Gaza, in a retaliatory operation against what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "an attack the barbarity of which... we have not seen since the Holocaust".
United States President Joe Biden promised to send more ammunition and military hardware to his close ally, Israel. Biden expressed his disgust at the "crime" of slaughtering civilians in Hamas' unprecedented, massive offensive.
However, Biden also made his first call for Israel to exercise restraint in its response to Hamas attacks, and urged Israel to adhere to the rules of war.
