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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Friday, August 5, 2022
PIJ takes responsibility for rocket barrages at southern and central Israel, says they were ‘just the beginning’
Members of the Saraya al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestine Islamic Jihad movement, take part in a military parade. in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on June 24, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad says they fired over 100 rockets Friday evening.
A PIJ spokesman says the Gaza-based terror group takes responsibility for tonight’s rocket fire at southern and central Israeli towns and says it is “just the beginning” of the response to the IDF’s killing of senior PIJ commander Tayseer Jabari.
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