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After Gaza launched rockets at Tel Aviv, IDF retaliates against terror bases

BREAKING: IAF jets retaliate, attacking targets in Gaza, beginning on Khan Yunis in response to Palestinians firing two Fajr-5 rockets toward central Israel cities.

By Elad Benari

 

The IDF began attacking targets in Gaza on Thursday night in response to the rocket fire on central Israel earlier in the evening.

The Palestinian Arabs reported that the attack took place in Khan Yunis.

Shortly after the start of the IDF attack in Gaza, sirens were sounded in the Eshkol Regional Council. The IDF confirmed a launch was identified but the rocket missed its target and exploded inside Gaza.

Prime Minister/Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding security consultations with heads of the security establishment at the Kirya in Tel Aviv Thursday night.

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UEA donates 50 mobile homes to Gaza’s homeless

According to Hamas housing ministry, 9,800 homes were destroyed during Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’. With some families beginning to enter newly donated mobile homes, the rehabilitation process is starting.

By AFP

 

 

Fifty Palestinian families made homeless by Israeli bombing during the summer’s fierce offensive on the Gaza Strip were rehoused Saturday in mobile homes in the southern town of Khan Yunis.

UEA gives 50 mobile homes (Photo: AFP)

UEA gives 50 mobile homes – Photo: AFP

During the 50-day conflict, 9,800 homes were totally destroyed and another 8,000 left uninhabitable, according to data from the housing ministry in Gaza.

Imad al-Haddad, Gaza head of a United Arab Emirates association providing these 50 mobile homes, told AFP that, in the town’s Khuzaa neighborhood alone 500 families lost the roofs over their heads. Continue Reading »