IAF Strikes Hamas Terror Targets in Gaza Following Rocket Attack
“It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.” (Deuteronomy 32:35)
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Late Friday night, the Israeli Air Force struck Hamas terror targets in the southern Gaza Strip for the first time since the end of the summer’s war.
The airstrikes, which occurred near Khan Yunis, came in response to rocket fire by terrorists in the Strip. The IAF reportedly struck a Hamas training camp and a cement factory being used to rebuild terror tunnels.
On Friday afternoon, a Kassam rocket landed in southern Israel near an Israeli community in the Eshkol region. Code Red sirens sounded in communities close to the border with Gaza, warning of an incoming attack.
The rocket attack marked the third time terrorists in Gaza fired rockets at Israel since the end of Operation Protective Edge.
Gaza residents reported low flying Israeli aircraft over Gaza as multiple airstrikes occurred. A spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry said there were no casualties in the attack.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit confirmed the Israeli strike, saying that IAF planes “struck Hamas terror infrastructure sites in the southern Gaza Strip.”
“The IDF will not permit any attempt to undermine the security and jeopardize the well-being of the civilians in Israel,” said IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner. “The Hamas terrorist organization is responsible and accountable for today’s attack against Israel.”
Hamas threatened Israel on Saturday following the airstrikes with more attacks. Hamas Prime Minister Islmail Haniyeh said that the Israeli airstrikes constitute “a grave violation of the ceasefire agreement.”
“We will protect and guard the resistance’s victory in the last conflict,” he stated. “We call on Egypt as the guarantor of the agreement to act and stop the violations by the enemy.”
Ismail al-Ashqar, a senior Hamas member, said that “the resistance has the right to respond to Israeli aggression at the time and place of its choosing.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel would not tolerate any rocket attacks and that Hamas would bear the consequences of its actions .
“If there’s an escalation of hostilities, Hamas will be to blame,” he stated.
Since the end of the war, Hamas has been testing homemade rockets within Gaza for use against Israel.
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