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Times of Israel: Rocket fire from Gaza is a message, but it’s not clear who the audience is, by Avi Issacharoff

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As of Sunday afternoon, the identity of those responsible for breaking the unofficial ceasefire agreement and firing a series of rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip overnight was not yet clear.

Six projectiles were fired overnight at southern Israel by Palestinian terror groups in the coastal enclave. The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted four, with another apparently landing in Israeli territory and one not clearing the border.

A number of Gaza pundits said that the most likely suspects were quasi-rogue factions, sometimes subcontracted by Hamas. This means that Hamas officials would have had to turn a blind eye, giving a green light to the splinter groups to launch attacks at Israel.

Read the full story at Times of Israel.