Fighter jets struck rocket launchers located near aid warehouses in southern 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 Hamas with 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...
and a weapons manufacturing plant that was embedded within an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, the Israel Defense Force said Wednesday.
The Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...launchers had been used for recent rocket attacks on southern Israel, the army said.
Also on Wednesday, the army called on Paleostinians in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun to head to "shelters in the center of Gaza City." Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, said the army was preparing to "forcefully and immediately operate" against terror groups in the area after missiles were fired from there at Sderot and Ashkelon on Tuesday.
The IDF has carried out numerous small raids in Beit Hanoun since dismantling the local Hamas battalion there during the initial months of the ground offensive. Not many civilians are thought to remain there. In all of northern Gaza, fewer than 200,000 Paleostinians remain, according to recent IDF assessments.
Dozens of rockets were fired over the past week from southern Gaza, mostly at Israeli border communities, but several long-range attacks also targeted the Gan Yavne area near Ashdod and towns near Kiryat Malachi.
According to the IDF, those rockets were fired from launchers belonging to Hamas that were placed next to two humanitarian aid
distribution warehouses, including one belonging to UNRWA, the United Nations...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
aid agency for Paleostinian refugees.
The launchers were struck and destroyed, and the IDF said it had identified secondary explosions following the
...
KABOOM!...
, indicating that additional weapons were stored there.
"The Hamas terrorist organization regularly violates international law, while systematically exploiting civilian buildings and the civilian population as human shields for terror activity against the State of Israel," the IDF said.
"Alongside this, the IDF, through COGAT, will continue to work in cooperation with the international aid organizations in the Gaza Strip," it added.
Dozens more airstrikes were carried out in Gaza over the past day, targeting buildings used by terror groups and cells of operatives, according to the military.
A weapons manufacturing plant was destroyed in an airstrike Tuesday, the IDF said. According to the army, the plant belonged to Hamas and 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...
and was located within the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Deir el-Balah, in the Gaza Strip’s center.
The IDF said it took "many steps" to minimize damage to civilians, including the use of aerial surveillance, munitions "adapted to the type of strike," and other intelligence.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!...
troops with the 162nd Division killed several button men and destroyed sites belonging to terror groups amid operations in Rafah over the past day, the IDF said.
In the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, reservists with the 252nd Division killed several more button men in festivities and by calling in airstrikes, the IDF added.