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IDF attacks 18 Gaza targets after rocket hits Israeli home in south
[Ynet] After detonation of bomb near Gazoo border, IDF carries out attack against 6 Hamas targets in Gazoo, including offensive tunnel, weapons manufacturing facility, military complex; in retaliation, rocket launched from Gazoo hits roof of Sha'ar HaNegev home; IAF continues to pound terror targets overnight Saturday.The IDF attacked 18 terror targets in the Gazoo Strip overnight Saturday, just hours after the Israeli Air Force attacked six Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, targets all across the Gazoo Strip, including an offensive tunnel running from the Zaytun neighborhood in Gazoo towards Israel. Returning fire, a rocket launched from the strip landed on the roof of a residence in the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. The family was home, but no one was harmed as the rocket failed to explode. The rocket was launched mere hours after four IDF soldiers were maimed‐two seriously and two moderately‐when an bomb detonated near the border fence. The IDF responded to the rocket's launch by again attacking a Hamas outpost in northern Gazoo. Amos, whose home was hit while he, his wife and their three children were home, said, "A huge miracle happened to us. Fortunately, our house's roof is heavily cemented and so the rocket couldn't get through." Later Saturday, A group of at least four Paleostinians attempted to infiltrate the Israeli communities south of Gazoo through Rafah. IDF forces picked up on the attempt and opened fire on the infiltrators using tanks and other means. Paleostinian reports said two Paleostinians were maimed by tank fire and were taken to a hospital. Egypt has been appealing to both sides to prevent further escalation. Hamas's leadership notified Egypt on a visit to Cairo it had no interest in escalation in the strip, as per a Paleostinian source in Gazoo. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said Hamas terror targets were hit in Gazoo, including a military complex on the former grounds of the evacuated Netzarim settlement "belonging to Hamas's unique military alignments, including weapons manufacturing sites." A Hamas military complex near Khan Yunis was also attacked. Hamas responded to the IDF's attacks by saying Israel will be held responsible for the escalation in Gazoo, and then later claimed to have targeted the air force's planes with antiaircraft fire‐the first time Hamas admitted to targeting the army since Operation Protective Edge. The air force reportedly attacked Hamas outposts in eastern Gazoo, as well as a rocket launch nook or an armament storage facility not far from the Karni crossing. Attacks have not yet targeted Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... . An IDF tank fired at an observation post in the southern strip earlier. A situation assessment was held Saturday evening following the kaboom with the participation of Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, GOC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, Air Force Commander Maj.-Gen. Amikam Norkin and other IDF top brass. "We consider any point in which a flag, bag or rock is is placed to be suspicious," the army said, adding, "This is an extremely serious terror incident that may destabilize the region. The device, which included a pipe and was part of a flag, was place on the Paleostinian side of the fence with the kaboom's main casualties coming from a Combat Engineering bomb removal squad, who seemed to have protection. "The device belonged to rogue organizations and not Islamic Jihad. Hamas is responsible for the incident because it brought protesters to these 'spontaneous' demonstrations during the past few weeks, which are then utilized for terror." The IDF noted a growing trend of escalation in the protests organized by Hamas near the border fence, which have included use of weapons such as frag grenades. The demonstrations were "unacceptable manipulations," as per the army.
"Until we eliminate them, the score remains unsettled. It will take two days, a week, or two weeks. We'll eliminate anyone behind the attack's execution," Lieberman told Ynet on Sunday morning. Speaking about Israel's retaliatory moves in Gazoo, the defense minister said, "We hit 18 terror targets, 18 quality targets, almost all of which belong to Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,. This is perhaps the most significant and widespread strike we carried out since Operation Protective Edge. Hamas is the ruler, and we consider Hamas to be responsible for everything that is done in the Gazoo Strip and from the Gazoo Strip." Palestinian teenagers killed in Israeli air raids
The two bodies of the two 17-year-old boys were retrieved in the city of Rafah on Sunday morning, Ashraf al-Qudra, front man for Gazoo's health ministry, confirmed. At least two other Paleostinians have been maimed, one of whom is at death's door, and are currently treated in a medical facility in Rafah. The official Paleostinian news agency WAFA reported that missiles launched from an Israeli F-16 attack aircraft damaged several civilian homes.
The rocket went kaboom!in an open area in the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. There were no casualties and no damage was done.
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