For the first time in several weeks, an air raid siren rang out over the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Monday. According to paramedics, two people were injured as they ran into shelters in the city about 10 kilometres along the coast northwards from the Gaza Strip. Warning sirens also sounded in towns on the edge of the Gaza Strip, according to the military. The Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Israeli military said that two missiles fired from the northern Gaza Strip had been intercepted by Israel’s missile defence system. Previously,…