[IsraelTimes] Rocket sirens sound in the southern city hours after IDF hits two Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, positions in response to an bomb that was flown into southern Israel.Paleostinian gunnies in the Gazoo Strip fired a single rocket into Israel early Monday, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome system, the IDF said. There were no reports of injuries.
Warning sirens blared in the southern city of Ashkelon and the nearby Ashkelon beach region after 3 am. The IDF said it identified a single launch from Gazoo.
Residents reported hearing loud kabooms, apparently from the Iron Dome interceptor.
The launch came hours after the Israeli Air Force struck two Hamas positions in the eastern Gazoo Strip in response to an bomb that was flown into southern Israel earlier in the day, the army said.
On Sunday morning, a bomb was flown into Israel using a large cluster of balloons and a drone-like glider device, landing in a carrot field in the Sdot Negev region of southern Israel shortly before noon.
In retaliation for the cross-border attack from Gazoo, Israeli military helicopters attacked two observation posts east of Khan Younis that are controlled by the coastal enclave’s Hamas rulers, the Israel Defense Forces said.
"IDF attack helicopters struck two military positions belonging to the Hamas terrorist group in the Gazoo Strip in response to the balloon-borne bomb, which was launched by a model drone," the army said.
In addition to the posts near Khan Younis, Paleostinian media reported that the IDF had attacked targets near Jabalia, in northern Gazoo, and in the Zeitoun area of Gazoo City, in the central Strip. The IDF refused to comment on those reports.
The military did not say who it believed flew the bomb into southern Israel, but said it held Hamas responsible as the rulers of Gazoo.
"The IDF will continue to act in defense of the citizens of Israel and against terrorism from the Strip," the army said.
Though similar to a drone in appearance, the balloon-borne device was apparently not capable of flight.
The name of a Gazook engineering college was printed on the side of the model drone.
Police said the device went
kaboom!as a bomb disposal robot examined it. The drone lookalike was then carried away.
"No injuries were caused; the investigation continues," police said.
It was not immediately clear how the device made it across the border without being shot down by the IDF.
The discovery came after a week-long lull in airborne arson attempts from Gazoo.