On Monday, rockets were fired from the Gaza strip towards Israeli territory, reportedly hitting a home in Mishmeret. In retaliation, Israel targeted Hamas buildings in Gaza, with their leader Ismail Haniyeh going into hiding.
Israel opened public bomb shelters in most major cities and civil defence authorities cancelled sports events and public transportation in southern Israel.
On Tuesday, the fighting continued, causing one Christian man's home to be destroyed.
Nashat Filmon, Director of the Palestinian Bible Society, a group who work in East Jerusalem and the Gaza strip, told Premier: "This morning I was talking to somebody who lost his home - one of our colleagues at the Bible society - the whole building has been leveled as a result of nine Israeli missiles hitting his building and causing the whole building to collapse.
"Of course, the people in the building received the warning just five minutes before, that the building is going to be targeted and accordingly they all left in their pyjamas and with nothing in their hands and the pictures that they got for the building are really bad but it explains a little bit of again the frustration on the Palestinian side who were hoping that a breakthrough would happen and some freedom would come to their area and soon.
"I got the news this morning only so it only happened last night/early this morning and his home is almost totally destroyed. Luckily he's at the moment in the West Bank, which is great that he can find some place here to be living in but imagine if he's there in Gaza and his home is no more - Where would he go? And that's the case for many other families."
Christian Friends of Israel wrote on Twitter on Tuesday: "the need for prayer this week in Israel continues to be very great. Dozens of rockets once again have being launched by Islamic #Palestinian terrorists from #Gaza at civilians in southern #Israel despite declarations by Hamas of a ceasefire!"
As @cfi_uk reported yesterday, the need for prayer this week in Israel continues to be very great. Dozens of rockets once again have being launched by Islamic #Palestinian terrorists from #Gaza at civilians in southern #Israel despite declarations by Hamas of a ceasefire!
— CFI UK (@cfi_uk) 26 March 2019
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