Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas rocket barrage amid spiralling violence at Al-Aqsa

Jerusalem - Israel's army launched air strikes on Gaza Monday in response to rockets fired by the Islamist movement Hamas amid spiralling violence sparked by unrest at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

He said Israeli forces had targeted"a Hamas military operative," while Hamas sources in Gaza confirmed to AFP that one of their commanders, Mohammed Fayyad, had been killed. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, Monday warned Israel to withdraw all its forces from the mosque compound and the east Jerusalem district of Sheikh Jarrah, where looming evictions of Palestinian families have fuelled angry protests.

A spokesman for Hamas' armed wing the Qassam Brigades said that"a volley of rockets was fired towards the enemy in occupied Jerusalem in response to its crimes and aggression on the holy city and repression of its residents in Sheikh Jarrah and the Al-Aqsa mosque". The Israeli army said on Twitter that, separate to the rockets,"as a result of an anti-tank missile fired from Gaza, an Israeli civilian in a nearby vehicle was lightly injured" in the Gaza border area.

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