Two people were injured from a rocket attack launched from the Gaza Strip, which came at the same time as Israel signed historic peace treaties with two Arab nations at the White House.
The Israel Defense Forces said that at least two rockets were fired from the Hamas-controlled strip Tuesday evening local time. One of the rockets was intercepted by the country’s Iron Dome missile defense system, but another rocket exploded in a street in Ashdod, a city of more than 200,000 people.
The street and nearby storefronts were damaged in the attack, according to the Times of Israel. One 62-year-old man reportedly had shrapnel wounds to his upper body, and a 28-year-old man had sustained injuries from broken glass. Medics said four others had anxiety attacks as a result of the rocket fire.
The attacks come as officials from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump to sign the so-called Abraham Accord, a normalization pact. The number of Arab countries with peace treaties with Israel doubled as they signed the accord. Only Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994) had previously signed deals with the Jewish state.
Hamas, a terrorist group based out of the Gaza Strip, condemned the signing in a Tuesday statement.
“The normalization agreements between Bahrain, the UAE, and the Zionist entity are not worth the paper they were written on,” Hamas said in a statement. “Our people insists on continuing its struggle until it secures the return of all [of] its rights.”
In Gaza on Tuesday, demonstrators protested the deal by burning Israeli, UAE, Bahraini, and U.S. flags. Photographs of those countries’ leaders were also torched.
Multiple injuries in Ashdod, Israel after rockets fired from Gaza during White House peace accord signing.
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