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| September 19, 2015
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Israel Responds: IAF Jets Strike Gaza After Iron Dome Shot Down Palestinian Rocket

 

Friday evening an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery shot down one Gaza rocket over the city of Ashkelon but the other rocket exploded in Sderot, causing damage but no injuries.

 

The Israeli Air Force reportedly struck a Hamas military training facility in the North of Gaza early Saturday morning in response to multiple rocket attacks from the coastal enclave the previous day.

Just before midnight Friday evening, an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery shot down a Gazan rocket over the southern city of Ashkelon.

Two rockets were fired by Palestinians in Gaza – Photo : Sderot Media Center

There were no injuries or damages, the IDF said. Continue Reading »

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| September 3, 2015
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Israel Air Force Responds to Hamas Rifle Fire From Gaza

 

Israeli aircraft struck the terror military compound belonging to Hamas from which .50 cal. shots were fired at two homes in Southern Israel.

By Elad Benari

 

Israeli aircraft on Wednesday night attacked a military compound belonging to the Hamas terrorist< organization in northern Gaza from which shots were fired at two homes in the Hof Ashkelon region of southern Israel on Wednesday evening.

“The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for the Gaza Strip and for maintaining peace in the region”, the IDF Spokesperson stated.

IAF continues to defend Israel day and night. – Photo courtesy IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

At approximately 7 p.m. Continue Reading »

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| August 28, 2015
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Israel Retaliates: No Gaza Rocket Fired at Israel Goes Unpunished

 

Israel’s Air Force targeted Hamas weapons manufacturing site in Gaza after terrorist’s rocket exploded in open area near the border in southern Israel Thursday morning.

By Efrat Forsher, Lilach Shoval, Gadi Golan, Israel Hayom Staff & News Agencies

 

The Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning in response to a rocket that had been fired from Gaza into southern Israel several hours earlier.

The rocket exploded in an open area in southern Israel. No injuries or damage were reported.

Israel holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from Gaza, which Hamas controls. Continue Reading »

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| August 7, 2015
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Israel Strikes Back: After Multiple Rockets Fired at Israel, Air-Strike Hits Hamas in Gaza

Israeli Air Force successfully strikes a terrorist target belonging to Hamas following Friday’s two separate rocket attacks on Southern Israel.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Friday evening struck a terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hamas in central Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza – Reuters

A direct hit at the target was identified, according to the statement.

The airstrike was in retaliation for Friday afternoon’s rocket attack from Gaza on the Eshkol region in southern Israel, the statement continued, adding that Hamas bears responsibility for any rocket fire from Gaza on Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 7, 2015
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Israel Air Force Bombs Terror Targets After Rocket Fired From Gaza Strikes Israel

Israeli war-jets hit terrorist infrastructure in northern part of Gaza Strip, in response to their rocket attack on Ashkelon a few hours earlier.

By Elad Benari

 

Israeli aircraft attacked a terrorist infrastructure in northern Gaza overnight Saturday, in retaliation for a rocket attack on Ashkelon several hours earlier, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement.

Airstrike in Gaza

Airstrike in Gaza – Photo: Thinkstock

In addition, following several rocket attacks in recent days, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has decided to close the Erez and Kerem Shalom border crossings between Gaza and Israel, the statement said.

The crossings will only be opened in humanitarian cases, and the decision on the opening of the crossings will be made on the basis of a security assessment and in accordance with security considerations. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2015
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IAF Retaliates with Airstrikes in Gaza Following ISIS Rocket Attack on Southern Israel

Israel Air Force responds to 3 rockets fired from Gaza that the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for.
• Hamas accuses the Islamic extremists of pulling Israel into another war with Gaza.

By i24news

 

Israeli combat jets struck targets in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip following earlier rocket fire on Israeli communities bordering the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian media reported early Thursday morning.

Hours earlier, three missiles fired from the Strip landed in open areas in the Sdot Negev Regional Council in after sirens warning of incoming rockets blared across the south of Israel Thursday evening.

It appears the attack caused no casualties or damage to property. Continue Reading »

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| May 27, 2015
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Watch Video: Dramatic Retaliatory Airstrike by IAF in Gaza After Rockets Fired at Israel

Early Wednesday morning the Israeli Air Force attacked 4 targets in the Gaza Strip which the IDF reports were part of Hamas’ terror infrastructure.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Palestinian media posted on Wednesday what they claim is footage of the IDF response to rockets fired at Israel from Gaza. In the video, several explosions can be seen in the distance, followed by smoke.

Explosions in Gaza from IDF retaliatory attack after rockets fired at Israel - 27.5.2014
Explosions in Gaza from IDF retaliatory attack after rockets fired at Israel – 27.5.2015 – Screenshot

The Israeli Air Force attacked four targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning, following an earlier rocket attack on Israeli territory, the IDF spokesperson said. Continue Reading »

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| May 27, 2015
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The Israel Air Force struck 4 targets in Gaza in response to 4 rockets fired on Israel

Israel’s Defense Minister Ya’alon: We hold Hamas responsible for everything that happens in the Gaza Strip.

By Matan Tzuri, Yoav Zitun, Itay Blumenthal, Elior Levy, Moran Azulay

 

The Israel Air Force struck four targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning in response to rocket fire at southern Israel the previous night, IDF spokesman said.

IAF F-16 – Photo courtesy, Nir Ben-Yosef/IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

The IAF strike targeted Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets, and accurate hits were identified, the army said. “If there is no calm in Israel, the Gaza Strip will pay a heavy price for it, one that causes anyone who chooses to challenge us to regret it,” Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said. Continue Reading »

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| April 24, 2015
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Israel’s Air Force hit Gaza ‘terror site’ in response to Independence Day rocket attack

Hamas rocket falls in southern Israel in 2nd unprovoked attack since last summer’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’.

By 124news

 

Israeli military forces struck a target in the northern Gaza Strip late Thursday night, hours after a rocket fired from the coastal enclave struck southern Israel, violating an already shaky truce between the sides.

Ceasefire broken by Hamas with rocket fired at Israel; the IAF continues to defend Israel day and night. – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

The Israel Defense Forces said it targeted a “terror site” belonging to the Hamas terror group near Beit Hanoun.

“In response to rocket attack against Israel, the #IDF targeted a terrorist infrastructure in northern #Gaza,” military spokesperson Peter Lerner wrote on Twitter.

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| December 20, 2014
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Israeli Aircraft Hits Gaza Terror Sites in Retaliation for Rocket-Fire

IAF carries out 1st airstrikes in Gaza since summer’s conflict, after Friday’s unprovoked rocket fire into Israel; Hamas vows to retaliate.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Israeli aircraft hit Gaza for the first time since an August truce ended 50 days of war after Palestinian terrorists fired a rocket at a southern Israeli town, witnesses and the army said early Saturday.

A spokesman for Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said there were no casualties in the air strike, which came just hours after the rocket hit an open field in southern Israel on Friday without causing casualties or damage.

It was the third instance of rocket fire from Gaza since the August 26 truce between Israel and the territory’s Islamist de facto rulers Hamas.

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| July 8, 2014
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Hamas naval commander +3 eliminated by IAF surgical airstrike

In #OperationProtectiveEdge, IAF strikes homes belonging to Hamas official that are used as command & control centers.

 

In a joint IDF-Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation, the air force struck a vehicle containing a commander of Hamas’s naval commando unit, Muhammad Sa’aban, aged 24 on Tuesday.

Surgical strike by IAF - Photo: YouTube screenshot

Surgical airstrike by IAF in Gaza – Photo: YouTube screenshot

Palestinian media reported that four Hamas people in total were killed in the targeted strike on the vehicle.

Sa’aban’s commando unit operated in northern Gaza, security forces said. He was immediately killed in the strike. Sa’aban was a resident of Jabalia in Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| July 7, 2014
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Israel Retaliatory Airstrike Kills 2 Islamic Jihad Terrorists in Gaza

  

Palestinians report that 2 members of Islamic Jihad group Al-Quds Brigades, were killed in latest airstrike in Gaza.

By Elad Benari

 

Two terrorists were killed in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza late Sunday, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reports.

Aftermath of IAF strike in Gaza (archive)

Aftermath of IAF strike in Gaza (archive) – Photo: Reuters

According to the report, two members of Al-Quds Brigades, the so-called “military wing” of the Islamic Jihad group, were killed as Israeli warplanes struck the al-Bureij neighborhood.

The two were identified by Ma’an as Mazen al-Hadba and Marwan Salim.

Further details were not immediately available.

An IDF spokeswoman quoted by Ma’an said the Israel Air Force had “managed to prevent a rocket attack” from central Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| July 6, 2014
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Israel retaliates in pre-dawn airstrike on 10 terror targets in Gaza

IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz said earlier on Saturday that Israel holds Hamas responsible for ongoing rocket fire from Gaza.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Israeli warplanes struck rocket-launching targets in the Gaza Strip before dawn on Sunday, the army announced.

According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, IAF aircraft hit 10 targets in central and southern Gaza.

Earlier on Saturday, IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz visited the northern Gaza border region on Saturday and met with military forces operating in the sector. Gantz spoke with infantry and tank unit commanders and examined preparations underway for a possible escalation. Continue Reading »

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| July 2, 2014
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Hamas empties its Gaza HQ & bases in anticipation of Israeli reprisals over murder of 3 teens

 

Israel Air Force hits dozens of targets in Gaza.

PA president calls U.S. & European leaders to pressure Israel to show restraint.

By Daniel Siryoti & Lilach Shoval

 

Israel bombed dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking at Hamas after finding the bodies of three missing teenagers — Gil-ad Shaer, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Frenkel — whose abduction and killing it blames on the Palestinian Islamist group.

A ball of fire is seen following an Israel airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza, overnight Monday – Photo: AFP

Israel’s security cabinet, which held an emergency session late on Monday and was due to meet again on Tuesday, was currently split on the scope of any further action in the coastal enclave and Judea and Samaria, officials said.

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| June 27, 2014
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WATCH: Pinpoint hit takes out 2 Gaza Terrorists who shot rockets into Israel

* UPDATED WITH GAZA CC SECURITY FOOTAGE

Palestinians say Israeli aircraft hit a car driving in the center of Gaza, assassinating two operatives from the Islamic militant group, Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades.

By Elior Levy, Yoav Zitun

 

The Israel Air Force attacked a vehicle with two Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip on Friday. The Palestinians reported the two had been killed.

The car hit by the IAF – Photo: Reuters

Palestinian news agency Ma’an identified the two as Muhammad al-Fasih, 24, from Gaza City, and Usama al Hassumi 29, from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, senior members of Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. Continue Reading »

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