STORY: Israel hits Gaza amid new border violence
DATELINE: Sept. 28, 2023
LENGTH: 00:04:51
LOCATION: Jerusalem
CATEGORY: MILITARY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protesters clashing near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli side, near the Israeli village of Nahal Oz on Sept. 26, 2023
2. various of the Gaza border

STORYLINE:

The Israeli military struck a Hamas post near the Gaza-Israel border on Tuesday, saying the airstrike was a response to an earlier petrol bomb thrown at an Israeli military post.
   
A spokesperson for the Israeli military said in a statement that the strike by an unmanned aerial vehicle was launched "in response" to "a violent riot at the security fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip." During the protest, a suspect hurled a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli military post near the fence, which set the military post alight.
   
The drone struck a military post belonging to Hamas in the Rafah area, near where the protest occurred, according to the spokesperson.
   
The strike is one of the series that Israel has launched amid the near-daily protests at the border by the Palestinians for almost two weeks.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jerusalem.
(XHTV)