Massive explosions hit #Gaza as Israeli warplanes strike for 10th straight night https://t.co/bQtByhTPsh #Israel #Palestine
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Israel hits Gaza for third time after major uptick in rocket fire overnight
Today, 6:58 am Israel Time
[IsraelTimes] 12 rockets fired at Israel from 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...
since Thursday night, damage caused to Sderot home, as violence escalates along restive border region
Israeli warplanes carried out
...KABOOM!...
s in Gaza early Friday morning, capping off a night that saw multiple rounds of rocket launches and reprisal raids as simmering tensions threatened to break into the open.
The Israel Defense Forces said at around 6 a.m. that fighter jets and other aircraft carried out strikes on "underground infrastructure belonging to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group."
The raid was the third of the night, after two earlier sorties targeted a cement facility used to provide materials for tunnels used by Gazook terror groups, and a site where rockets are produced.
The Shehab news outlet, which is linked to the Hamas terror group which rules the enclave, reported at least one person was injured during the strikes east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
The military said the strike was in response to seven rockets fired at Israel some three hours earlier, six of which were shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile system. Another five rockets were shot at Israel late Thursday, two of which failed to reach Israeli territory and three of which were shot down by the Iron Dome system, according to the military.
The night of fighting capped a day in which at least 42 fires were sparked by balloon-borne incendiary devices lofted from Gaza, according to the Fire and Rescue Service. A statement from the fire service said most of the blazes were small and didn’t pose any danger to people or property.
The apparent uptick in fighting late Thursday and early Friday comes amid truce efforts being brokered by Egypt.
A ceasefire in place for years, which has already been renewed several times, is bolstered by millions of dollars in financial aid from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
to Gaza. But complaints from Hamas that Israel has failed to live up to its side of the bargain have been accompanied by sporadic flare-ups on the border.
The truce provided for permits for Gazooks to work in Israel and financing for Gaza development projects, both measures that would provide some economic relief in an impoverished territory where unemployment exceeds 50 percent.
Sources told AFP the twin issues were at the root of the latest flare-up.
A source close to Hamas said the Israeli government told the Egyptian delegation it expected a "return to calm" before considering implementation of truce provisions such as "the extension of the eastern Gaza industrial zone" and the construction of a new power line to the territory.