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ISRAEL, GAZA MILITANTS TRADE FIRE AS MIDEAST TENSIONS MOUNT

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Israel's Iron Dome air defense system launches missiles to intercept rockets
fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, over Gaza City, early Thursday, April
21, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants fired several rockets into southern
Israel from the Gaza Strip early Thursday and Israeli aircraft hit militant
targets in Gaza, part of an escalation that was eerily similar to the run-up to
last year’s Israel-Gaza war.

The cross-border strikes came against the backdrop of Israeli-Palestinian
tensions that have been boiling in Jerusalem.

On Wednesday, hundreds of flag-waving Israeli ultra-nationalists marched toward
predominantly Palestinian areas around Jerusalem’s Old City, a demonstrative
display of Israeli control over the disputed city seen as a provocation by
Palestinians.

Police closed the main road leading to the Damascus Gate of the Old City, the
epicenter of last year’s unrest preceding an 11-day war between Israel and
Hamas. After some pushing and shoving with police, the marchers rallied near the
barricades, waving flags, singing and chanting.

A hilltop shrine in the Old City is the emotional ground zero of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a flashpoint for previous rounds of violence.
Known to Muslims as the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, it is the third holiest site in
Islam. It is also the holiest site in Judaism, revered by Jews as the Temple
Mount, the site of their biblical temples.

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For Palestinians, the mosque compound, administered by Muslim clerics, is also a
rare place in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem where they have a measure of
control. Palestinians seek east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967
Mideast war, as a future capital.

Palestinian militant groups in Gaza — the ruling Hamas and the smaller Islamic
Jihad — have positioned themselves as defenders of the Jerusalem holy site. On
Wednesday, Hamas said Israel would bear “full responsibility for the
repercussions” if it allowed the marchers “to approach our holy sites.”

Several rockets were fired from Gaza overnight. Four rockets fired early
Thursday were intercepted by Israel, the military said. There were no immediate
reports of casualties or damage, and no one claimed the rocket strikes. Israel
holds Hamas responsible for all rocket fire.

Early Thursday, Israeli warplanes conducted a series of airstrikes in the
central Gaza Strip, local media reported. Social media posts by activists showed
smoke billowing in the air. The Israeli military said the airstrikes were aimed
at a militant site and an entrance of a tunnel leading to an underground complex
holding chemicals to make rockets.

The military later said its planes attacked another Hamas compound after an
anti-aircraft missile was fired from Gaza during the initial airstrikes. It said
the missile failed to hit its target and no injuries or damage were reported.

Tensions have surged in recent weeks after a series of deadly attacks inside
Israel, Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank and repeated
clashes between Israelis and Palestinians at the Al Aqsa compound.

Last May, Palestinian militants in Gaza fired rockets toward Jerusalem as a much
larger group of thousands of Israelis held a flag march to the Old City
following weeks of protests and clashes in and around Al-Aqsa. Those events led
to an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas.

Israeli nationalists stage such marches to try to assert sovereignty over east
Jerusalem, which Israel seized in 1967, along with the West Bank and Gaza, and
annexed in a move not recognized internationally. The Palestinians seek an
independent state in all three territories and consider east Jerusalem their
capital.

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Associated Press writer Joseph Krauss in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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