during the operation , the pace of both rocket fire and shelling increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale dramatically , and the idf mounted numerous ground incursions into the gaza strip to target Aiming militant groups and their infrastructure , including smuggling Committing_crime tunnels in the philadelphi corridor .

Palestinian militant groups retaliated Revenge by launching rocket attacks Attack on Israel , with over 300 Grad missiles , Qassam rockets and mortar shells launched , of which 177 hit Israeli territory striking Attack the major urban centers of Ashdod , Ashkelon and Beersheba , as well as smaller communities .

Twenty-three Israelis were injured Bodily_harm , all of them civilians , and schools throughout southern Israel were kept closed for most of the week to protect Defending students from rocket fire .

israel attacked Attack with 37 air strikes Attack on gazan weapons storage facilities , rocket launching Self_motion sites , weapon manufacturing Manufacturing facilities , training Education_teaching bases , posts , tunnels and militants , killing Killing 22 , mostly from palestinian islamic jihad and the others from the popular resistance committees .

The disintegration Dispersal of the vehicle began Process_start after a joint Collaboration in its right solid rocket booster ( SRB ) failed at liftoff Motion_directional .

The seals ' failure caused Causation a breach in the SRB joint , allowing Preventing_or_letting pressurized burning gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach Arriving the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB aft field joint Collaboration attachment hardware and external fuel tank .

On 8 June 2014 , 10 militants armed with automatic weapons , a rocket launcher , suicide vests , and grenades attacked Terrorism Jinnah International Airport in Karachi , Pakistan .

Aleppo 's governor Mohammed Wahid Akkad called Statement the rocket strikes Attack a `` terrorist Terrorism attack Attack that targeted students on their first day of exams . ''

The Israeli airstrikes Military_operation and ground bombardment Military_operation , the Palestinian rocket attacks Attack and the ground fighting Hostile_encounter resulted in Causation the death Death of thousands of people , the vast majority of them Gazans .

The stated aim of the Israeli operation Military_operation was to stop Preventing_or_letting rocket fire Use_firearm from Gaza into Israel , which increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale after an Israeli crackdown Attack on Hamas in the West Bank was launched Process_start following the 12 June kidnapping Kidnapping and murder Killing of three Israeli teenagers by two Hamas members .

according to the bbc , in response Response to rocket fire Use_firearm from the gaza strip , israel launched Military_operation air raids Attack on gaza .

Most Gazan mortar and rocket fire hit Attack open land .

The Zagreb rocket attacks Attack were a series of two rocket attacks Attack conducted Action by the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina that used Using multiple rocket launchers to strike Attack the Croatian capital of Zagreb during the Croatian War of Independence .

The Zagreb rocket attacks Attack were a series of two rocket attacks Attack conducted Action by the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina that used Using multiple rocket launchers to strike Attack the Croatian capital of Zagreb during the Croatian War of Independence .

The Zagreb rocket attacks Attack were a series of two rocket attacks Attack conducted Action by the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina that used Using multiple rocket launchers to strike Attack the Croatian capital of Zagreb during the Croatian War of Independence .

The rocket attacks Attack deliberately targeted Aiming civilian locations .

Israel 's stated goal was to stop indiscriminate Palestinian rocket fire into Israel and weapons smuggling into the Gaza strip .

Hamas stated Statement its rocket fire was in response Response to Israeli military actions , subsequent to what Hamas stated Statement was a unilateral Israeli violation of a ceasefire several weeks earlier .

Israeli forces attacked Attack police stations , military targets including weapons caches and suspected rocket firing teams , as well as political and administrative institutions in the opening assault , striking Attack in the densely populated cities of Gaza , Khan Yunis and Rafah .

Hamas intensified Cause_change_of_strength its rocket and mortar attacks Attack against civilian targets in southern Israel , reaching the major cities of Beersheba and Ashdod for the first time during the conflict .

According to the Shin Bet , after the conflict Hostile_encounter , there was a decrease Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in Palestinian rocket attacks .

the israeli government stated Statement that the aims Aiming of the military operation were to halt rocket attacks Attack against civilian targets originating from the gaza strip Emptying and to disrupt Hindering the capabilities of militant organizations .

They cited Adducing the blockade of the Gaza Strip and the occupation of West Bank , including East Jerusalem , as the reason Protest for rocket attacks Attack .

during the course of the operation , the idf claimed Statement to have struck Attack more than 1,500 sites in the gaza strip Emptying , including rocket launchpads , weapon depots , government facilities , and apartment blocks Hiding_objects .

During the operation , Hamas , the al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ) further intensified Cause_change_of_strength their rocket attacks Attack on Israeli cities and towns , in an operation code named Operation Stones of Baked Clay ( , `` ḥijārat sijīl '' ) by the al-Qassam Brigades , firing Use_firearm over 1,456 rockets into Israel , and an additional 142 which fell Motion_directional inside Gaza itself .

Canada , Germany , the United Kingdom , the United States , and other Western countries expressed Sending support for what they considered Israel 's right to defend Defending itself , or condemned Judgment_communication the Hamas rocket attacks Attack on Israel .

Palestinian rocket attacks Attack on Israel , Israeli airstrikes Attack on Gaza , and the joint Egyptian-Israeli blockade of Gaza have exacerbated the conflict .

operation `` grapes of wrath '' ( ) is the israeli defense forces code-name ( referred Name_conferral to as april war by hezbollah ) for a unk campaign against lebanon in 1996 which attempted to end rocket attacks Attack on northern israel by hezbollah .

639 Hezbollah cross-border rocket attacks Attack targeted Aiming northern Israel , particularly the town of Kiryat Shemona ( HRW 1997 ) .

The ceasefire was broken Bodily_harm almost immediately by rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israel , followed by retaliatory Israeli airstrikes , killing Killing at least seven Palestinians , among them two leaders of the Islamic Jihad .

The operation succeeded in liberating the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen along with many towns , creating Creating a salient into German-held territory limiting V-2 rocket launching sites .