The Israeli military struck 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 early Friday morning, hours after four rockets were launched at Israel from the Hamas-run Paleostinian enclave.
The Israel Defense Forces said it launched
...KABOOM!...
s at a "unique" underground rocket manufacturing facility used by the Hamas terror group. It published a satellite photo of what it said was the site, showing an area near several buildings and agricultural plots on the northwest edge of the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. It said it was the third such facility hit since April.
"The strike was carried out in response to launches from Gazook territory to Israeli territory earlier this evening," the IDF said in a statement just before 4 a.m.
The commander of the IDF Southern Command’s so-called "fire center," which coordinates the unit’s offensive operations, said the site was bombed with 19 tons of munitions.
"It will result in harming the Hamas terror group’s attempts to build up and arm itself," said Col. Yud, who can only be identified by the initial of his first name in Hebrew.
The Paleostinian Shehab news agency said a "resistance site" in al-Maghazi had been hit.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Photos shared on social media showed fireballs and smoke in Gaza from the airstrikes. Successive strikes could be seen hitting the same area repeatedly in unverified video footage as jets were heard screaming overhead.
Amid the strikes, Paleostinians apparently fired heavy machine-gun fire at Israeli aircraft over the coastal enclave. At least one home in the southern city of Sderot was struck by a large bullet as they fell back down to earth.
The retaliatory attack came after four rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel Thursday. One rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system over a border town, and the other three fell short in the Strip, according to the Israeli military. There were no reports of injuries or damage following the rocket attacks.
No Paleostinian group has grabbed credit for the launches, but the IDF said it held Hamas responsible.
The rocket fire came hours after a member of 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 killed during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin. The Gaza-based PIJ identified Farouk Salameh as a "commander" in the terror group. In a joint statement, the IDF and Border Police said Salameh was involved in the killing of a veteran police commando earlier this year, and had been planning further attacks.
Israel generally responds with airstrikes against Hamas sites regardless of the group launching the attack, noting that it is responsible for any attacks emanating from the territory. More rarely, it has directed its response at Islamic Jihad, if the terror group grabbed credit. The last time rockets were fired from the coastal enclave toward Israel was during a three-day battle against Islamic Jihad in August, during which it launched some 1,175 rockets.
Earlier Thursday, Israel said it was removing checkpoints in and out of the city of Nablus. Israel had imposed the restrictions weeks ago, clamping down on the city in response to a new terror group known as the Lions’ Den. The military has conducted repeated operations in the city in recent weeks, killing or arresting the group’s top commanders.
The IDF’s anti-terror offensive in the West Bank was launched following a series of Paleostinian attacks that killed 19 people earlier this year.