The Israeli military struck targets in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip after midnight on Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-controlled enclave hours earlier.
The rocket attack was the first in nearly four months, ending one of the longest periods of quiet on the Gaza border in years.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it bombed a number of targets, including a site used by Hamas to manufacture weapons. Hamas-affiliated media reported that the Israeli
...KABOOM!...
s targeted a site operated by Paleostinian factions west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Witnesses and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported no injuries from the air raid.
"The IDF considers Hamas responsible for what unfolds in the Gaza Strip," the army said.
Hamas front man Hazem Qassem sought to downplay the strikes."The Zionist bombing of some empty sites [is] a failed attempt
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Curses! Foiled again!...
to prevent our Paleostinian people from defending the city of Jerusalem," he said.
"Congratulations to the men of the resistance who confronted the fighter jets with our anti-aircraft defense," Qassem added, saying it had been the first time that Hamas had used the surface-to-air missile.
The pro-
Hezbollah television network al-Mayadeen said Hamas used a SA-7 shoulder-fired missile, also known as a Strella.The IDF did not mention any damage to its own aircraft during the strike.
An unnamed security source told the Kan public broadcaster the air force operates under the assumption that Hamas has anti-aircraft missiles and that the terror group has previously deployed them during Israeli strikes.
The rocket fired at southern Israel on Monday evening was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. There were no reports of injuries as a result of the attack. The Eshkol regional council said there was no change in instructions for residents.
Following the rocket firing, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, and military chief Aviv Kohavi held a meeting to discuss a potential response, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
The attack came amid escalating Israeli-Paleostinian tensions, following festivities and violence in the Old City of Jerusalem, a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks and stepped up IDF activity against terror groups in the West Bank.
There was no immediate claim by any of the Gaza-based terror groups for the rocket fire. Paleostinian sources cited by the Kan public broadcaster and the Ynet news site said the 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...
was believed to be behind the attack.
After the rocket fire, Hamas reached out to Israel through Egyptian mediators in order to stress that it wasn’t interested in further escalation and had not been behind the attack, according to Kan.
In the past, Israel has responded with airstrikes against sites belonging to Gaza’s rulers, Hamas, regardless of the group launching the attack. More rarely, it has directed its response at Islamic Jihad, if the terror group grabbed credit. It is largely believed that Hamas has enough of a stronghold in the enclave that no rival group would fire at Israel without the ruling group’s tacit approval, at the very least.
The last time rockets were fired from the coastal enclave toward Israel was on January 1, 2022. At the time, no sirens sounded as the two rockets landed in the sea off the coast of Tel Aviv. Still, the IDF responded with a series of airstrikes against Hamas targets.
On Sunday afternoon, sirens sounded in the town of Nahal Oz, in what the IDF said was a false alarm.
The last few days have seen
Hamas and other Gaza-based terror groups have repeatedly invoked the flashpoint holy site as a red line. Police actions to quell riots there last year were among the triggers of an 11-day war in Gaza last May.