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| IAF strikes Gaza after rocket hits southern Israel |
| 2015-10-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] Israeli Air Force warplanes struck targets in the Gazoo Strip on Monday night, the army said, in response to rocket fire on the south hours earlier. The two sites hit in the strikes belong to the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, organization, which controls the Strip. "In response to the attack, IAF aircraft targeted two terror sites of the Hamas terror organization in the southern Gazoo Strip," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement after the strike. IDF front man Lt. Col. Peter Lerner held Hamas responsible for the rocket fire, and warned that there would be "consequences" if it failed to rein in those carrying out the attacks on Israel. "The intolerable reality of civilians continually living under the threat of Gazoo rockets is unacceptable, unbearable and must stop. Hamas must enforce their responsibilities or face the consequences. We will act against those that attack us and hold those that enable attacks against Israel accountable," Lerner said. According to the IDF, the strike on Israel earlier Monday evening was the 18th rocket launched from Gazoo to hit Israeli territory since January 2015. The rocket fired from the Gazoo Strip hit southern Israel, as air-raid sirens sounded across the communities adjacent to the Hamas-ruled Paleostinian territory. The IDF said the rocket, which landed in an open area in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, caused no injuries or damage. Local residents reported hearing an kaboom outside one of the Israeli communities adjacent to the border fence. |
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