Did lightning strike trigger Gaza rocket conflict on Israel?

A speculation that a lightning strike triggered Palestinian rocket glow from Gaza final week gained traction in Israel on Tuesday and competence explain a Israeli military’s singular response.

Two rockets were launched from a Hamas-ruled enclave on Oct 17th, though a organisation took a surprising step of denying it had carried out an attack.

Israeli cupboard apportion Tzachi Hanegbi pronounced there was reason to trust that was true.

One of the rockets wrecked a residence in a southern Israeli city of Beersheba, causing no casualties, a other landed in a Mediterranean Sea. Israel responded with atmosphere strikes that killed a belligerent in Gaza.

Soon afterwards, video seemed on amicable media display lightning educational a night sky in Gaza and afterwards dual fiery rockets tarnishing into a air.

Israel’s best-selling daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s confidence cupboard now believed a lighting set off a launch mechanism.

Asked about a report, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, a member of a confidence cabinet, told Israel Radio: “I won’t plead confidence cupboard meetings and we don’t know that ministers are chatting with journalists, though we can contend that as distant as we know, Hamas did not intend to glow those rockets.”

Hamas officials had no evident comment.

The rocket launchings coincided with Egyptian efforts to attorney a long-term ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, that have fought 3 wars in a past 10 years.

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