Israeli jets overnight Wednesday-Thursday carried out
s in the Gazoo Strip, in retaliation for mortar fire earlier in the day.Paleostinian murderous Moslems in the Gazoo Strip had fired three mortar shells into southern Israel on Wednesday, but caused no injuries or damage, the army and police said.
In a late-night statement, the army said the overnight raids targeted "significant terror infrastructure," without elaborating.
"The IDF will continue to use all the measures at its disposal, above and below ground, to thwart attacks against Israelis," the military said. "We are prepared and ready for a variety of scenarios and will act against any attempts to violate Israeli illusory sovereignty."
There were no immediate reports of injuries from the Israeli airstrikes.
The launches from Gazoo on Wednesday took place over a period of four hours. Police said two shells landed in open fields in the Eshkol region, and it was not immediately clear where the third landed.
Warning sirens were not triggered by the first two launches, apparently because the shells were heading toward unpopulated areas.
This was the fifth projectile from Gazoo to hit Israeli territory in under a week. There have also been a number of unsuccessful attempts, in which rockets were launched at Israel but failed to clear the border, landing instead inside Gazoo.
On Monday night, murderous Moslems in the Gazoo Strip fired a rocket at Israel that also hit an open field in the Eshkol region, causing neither injury nor damage.
On Friday, murderous Moslems in Gazoo fired three mortar shells at southern Israel, apparently in an attempt to interrupt a ceremony for a fallen IDF soldier whose remains are being held by Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in the coastal enclave. Two of the mortars were shot down by the Iron Dome missile defense system, while the third struck an Israeli community on the border, causing light damage to a building.
On Wednesday, the military completed an investigation of the Friday attack, determining it to have been the work of the Iran-backed Paleostinian 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...
terrorist group.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday said the mortar shells in that attack were supplied to Gazoo terror groups by Iran.
The air force had retaliated against the Friday barrage as well, carrying out two series of strikes over the weekend.
The recent attacks came two weeks after a period of near-daily attacks earlier in December. The past month has seen the largest incidence of rocket fire from the Strip since the 2014 Israel-Hamas war.
According to Israeli assessments, the rockets are not being launched by Hamas, but by other terrorist organizations in Gazoo.
The army believes that Hamas, which rules the Gazoo Strip, has been struggling to rein in other terrorist groups in the enclave and prevent them from carrying out attacks on Israeli targets.
On Tuesday, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot responded to the calls from Israeli politicians and public figures for more aggressive retaliations, dismissing them as "irresponsible."