The Iranian Revolutionary Guards fired a rocket close to an American military vessel on Saturday, in the Strait of Hormuz.

The missile was test-fired 1.3 kilometers (barely 3/4 of a mile) from the USS Harry S. Truman.

U.S. Central Command told Reuters the drill was “provocative, unsafe and unprofessional.”

The rockets were directed off the carrier’s starboard side, and were fired just as the U.S. carrier neared the end of the strait, military sources said.

The USS Harry S. Truman and the other vessels were in the “internationally recognized maritime traffic lane” at the time, a U.S. military official told NBC News. The USS Buckley, a French frigate and other commercial traffic were also present in the strait.

As the ships were transiting through, the Iranian navy suddenly announced over maritime radio that a live-fire exercise was about to begin. The navy ordered all vessels – which at the time were not in Iranian territorial waters – to clear the area.

Just 23 minutes later, an Iranian Navy fast and short attack craft began firing several unguided rockets “in close proximity,” according to U.S. Central Command spokesperson Navy Commander Kyle Raines.

“These actions were highly provocative, unsafe, and unprofessional and call into question Iran’s commitment to the security of a waterway vital to international commerce,” Raines said.

“While most interactions between Iranian forces and the U.S. Navy are professional, safe, and routine, this event was not and runs contrary to efforts to ensure freedom of navigation and maritime safety in the global commons,” Raines added in the unusually irate statement.

On November 16 2015, the USS Harry S. Truman, with assigned Carrier Air Wing Seven, began a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 6th and 5th Fleet areas of operation, the U.S. Navy confirmed. Truman can travel in excess of 30 knots, and has a crew of approximately 3,000. With the embarked air wing and staffs, the number rises to about 5,000.

Rocketfire from across the northern Israeli border sent residents in Nahariya
racing for bomb shelters early Sunday evening as the Red Alert (Tzeva Adom) incoming rocket alert siren blared across the northern coastal city.

Israelis in other northern communities were alerted to the threat and made their way to safe rooms as well.

The blasts from three rockets were heard to explode in open areas, according to local sources. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage to property.

Security forces are searching for the specific impact sites, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.

Residents in the northern Jewish community of Shlomi have been told to remain near their bomb shelters this evening.

The attack followed the death on Saturday of Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar, who was killed in an alleged Israeli air strike. Although Jerusalem welcomed the news of the Hezbollah terrorist’s death, the Israeli government did not formally take responsibility for the attack.

Kuntar was responsible for the brutal 1979 murder of the Haran family on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), including his own personal beating death of the family’s four-year-old child with the butt of his rifle.

The Lebanese terrorist was freed from an Israeli prison as part of an exchange deal to bring back the bodies of two IDF reservists, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. The two were kidnapped and murdered by Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists as part of an operation that launched the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Upon his return to Lebanon, Kuntar joined Hezbollah.

On Saturday, he died in a house at a meeting on the outskirts of Damascus, as the commander of Hezbollah terrorist operations in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.

Arab sources are reporting that the IDF killed 5 Gazans and wounded dozens more near the Gaza Border security fence, after an Arab mob of 400 people approached the border fence with firebombs, burning tires and stones.

The IDF confirms that they opened fire on a Gazan mob approaching the fence.

There is now concern that Gaza/Hamas will launch rockets at Israel.

Talks of a Hamas “truce” once again are exposed as a camouflage for war.

Israeli security officials revealed on Thursday they confiscated 15 tons of sulphuric acid, disguised in a shipment of paint that was destined to Gaza where terrorists could use the material to manufacture 3 tons of rocket fuel.

Several suspects were arrested.

The shipment at the Nitzana crossing at the Egyptian border, east of Gaza, was scheduled to enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom border crossing, where Israel allows tons of humanitarian add to reach Hamas-controlled Gaza every day.

Gaza Arab terrorists launched three rockets on Thursday toward the Mediterranean Sea as part of a military training exercise.

The launches were traced to the site of a former Jewish community in Gush Katif, according to the Hebrew-language HaKol HaYehudi website.

Since Israel’s 2014 counter-terror Operation Protective Edge, Gaza’s ruling Hamas terror organization and allied terror groups have been actively working to restore its tunnel network and other military infrastructure.

The group has also worked to replace the thousands of missiles it spent firing at Israel’s civilian population, and is currently upgrading its weaponry with new ordnance imported from Iran.

In Gaza, the Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorist groups are threatening to launch rockets at Israel in response to Monday night’s Jenin operation. As of now, a few hours after the operation began, neither have launched any rockets.