įor a week, Israel refrained from responding to the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip until 9 May when the operation commenced, breaking a ceasefire that had previously been agreed to between Israel and Palestinian groups on 3 May following a smaller flare-up in violence after the death of Adnan.
In one of these attacks, seven people in Sderot were injured. In response, later that same day, militants from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization launched approximately 102 rockets towards Sderot, communities in the Gaza periphery, and southern Israel. On, Khader Adnan, a former PIJ spokesman, died in an Israeli prison after an 87-day hunger strike against his repeated administrative detentions. Another PIJ senior leader and his aide were killed bringing total deaths to 34 Palestinians (including one in Israel), and 1 Israeli.
Rockets and airstrikes continued on 12 May while efforts continue towards a ceasefire. On 11 May, two more PIJ commanders were killed during airstrikes, while the death toll from the previous raids increased to at least 26. The PFLP claimed 4 of those killed on 10 May. Militants launched hundreds of rockets into Israel, over 938 according to the IDF, in what Palestinian militants called Operation Revenge of the Free ( Arabic: عملية ثأر الأحرار). Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continued on 10 May, killing six more Palestinians. Later on 9 May, two Palestinians were killed during an airstrike against a vehicle in Khan Yunis.
The surprise attack came a week after the death of hunger striker Khader Adnan-who had been linked to PIJ-in an Israeli jail, leading to a day of rocket attacks from Gaza that Israel blamed on PIJ before a ceasefire was agreed. This operation was started when the Israeli military killed three suspected leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement in a targeted assassination. On, Israel conducted a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, called Operation Shield and Arrow ( Hebrew: מבצע מגן וחץ) that lasted until 13 May.
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