RAMALLAH: On Friday afternoon Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced that it was responsible for a Qassam rocket attack on Tel Aviv. “There was a very loud alarm, and then we heard a loud boom," Karam, a 20-year-old university student, told BikyaMasr.com. “Many people are heading for shelters," he added. The rocket strike on Tel Aviv has also been verified by Ha'aretz, Ma'an News Agency, and the Israeli military spokesperson. Friday's rocket marks the second successful strike on Tel Aviv, the first being Thursday evening when the Gaza-based Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, successfully targeted southern Tel Aviv. Around 2:00 pm on Friday Hamas claimed that it fired rockets from the Gaza Strip in the direction of the Israeli parliament, Al-Jazeera Arabic reported on television. BikyaMasr.com is unable to confirm this claim as of present. Palestinian media outlets reported on Friday that 22 casualties have been suffered as a result of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces are reporting airstrikes on over 250 sites across Gaza, while armed militants have fired roughly 300 rockets into Israel since a targeted assassination took the life of Hamas chief Ahmad Jabari early Wednesday evening. Two Palestinians in Gaza died on Friday, Ma'an News Agency reports.