I used to get really upset about this kind of thing, but I came to realize it’s just like mowing the lawn on another day that ends in Y. Both the Jerusalem Post andthe Times of Israel have photos and videos at their links.
[JPost] The IDF struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night after a rocket was fired from the Strip into southern Israel earlier in the night, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.A rocket was fired into Israeli territory north of the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, but no interceptors were fired from the Israeli side. The rocket reportedly fell in an open area.
The strikes targeted a workshop for producing weapons belonging to Hamas. The workshop serves as a central production site for much of the rockets belonging to the terrorist organization. A terrorist tunnel belonging to Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip was hit as well.
During the strikes, a second rocket alert was activated in open areas near the town of Bnei Netzarim near the border with Gaza. The Hamas-affiliated Shabab news network reported that two rockets were fired by Palestinian factions towards southern Israel in response to the strikes. After the second round of rocket fire, the IDF targeted a military position belonging to Hamas.
The Palestinian Donia Al-Watan news site reported that Egyptian intelligence is in intensive communications with the Palestinian factions warning them not to escalate the situation.
Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades announced that it had fired surface-to-air missiles at Israeli aircraft during the strikes.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem responded to the exchange of fire early Sunday morning, stating "The resistance's response to the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip, and its direct response to the Zionist bombing, confirms that it will not allow the occupation to change the equations and will continue to defend its people in all its places of presence."
"The Zionist enemy expands its aggression against our people by brutally bombing the Gaza Strip, after its crime yesterday of executing the martyr Ammar Mufleh in Hawara," added Qassem. "This Nazi terrorism and behavior will not stop our people's blazing revolution, and we will continue to support our people's uprising in all places of their presence."
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The small farming communities of Shlomit and Bnei Betzarim, which sit near the Egyptian border and opposite Gaza’s Rafah.
On social media, Gazooks reported hearing several rounds of air strikes near Khan Younis and Rafah in the south of the Strip.
Unconfirmed video footage appeared to show several large explosions.