Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross and Arab Affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman join host Jessica Steinberg.

Gross and Boxerman discuss the events and possible reasons as to why two rockets were fired from Gaza, landing off the Tel Aviv coast on Saturday morning, followed by retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza late Saturday night by the IDF and further retaliation from Gazan terrorists targeting Israeli military helicopters early Sunday morning.

The two talk about Israel and Hamas relations, seven months after the events of last May, the current ceasefire and the possible role of the Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for 137 days.

Discussed articles include:

Israel carries out airstrikes in Gaza in response to rockets off Tel Aviv coast

Anti-aircraft missiles fired at IDF helicopters during Gaza strike, but miss

Islamic Jihad, PA demand release of hunger-striking Palestinian detainee

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IMAGE: Smoke and fireball rises following an airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, early on January 2, 2022. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

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