More than 338,000 people have been displaced in Gaza, the United Nations said, with Israel’s siege causing critical shortages of electricity, food and water.
Syria and Israel exchanged shelling Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, after a number of mortars were launched toward northern Israel from Syria, falling in an open area. Israel responded with artillery strikes. Mortar attacks from Syria are widely viewed as symbolic; they rarely incur damage.
Syria and Israel have been in conflict for more than half a century, and these routine attacks are a continuation of that conflict rather than an escalation. Attacks from Syria typically follow flare-ups and unrest inside Israel and mostly fall in open fields. After Israeli police raids on one of Islam’s holiest sites in April, for example, the IDF said six rockets were fired from Syria, three crossing into Israeli territory.
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