In response to rockets fired from #Gaza to #Israel earlier today, we just struck terror targets in a Hamas compound in Gaza.
3 rockets were just fired from #Gaza to #Israel. In response, we struck 2 Hamas posts in Gaza.
Our fighter jets struck 15 terror targets in #Gaza in response to the rockets fired at #Israel earlier tonight. Our targets included: 🔴 A weapons manufacturing site 🔴 A Hamas terror tunnel We hold Hamas accountable.
Nearly half a million Israelis came under rocket fire moments ago when 2 rockets were fired from #Gaza toward the Israeli port cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod. Thankfully, both rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System.
Earlier tonight, 5 rockets were fired from #Gaza to #Israel. In response, we just struck a number of Hamas targets in northern Gaza.
5 rockets were just fired from #Gaza at #Israel.
A mortar shell was fired from #Gaza into #Israel. In response, we targeted a Hamas military post in Gaza.
3 rockets were fired from #Gaza at #Israel. 2 of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome Aerial Defense system.
We just identified an armed terrorist from #Gaza approaching the security fence with #Israel. The terrorist hurled several grenades at IDF soldiers. The troops charged and stopped the terrorist.
1:00AM: A second rocket was just fired from #Gaza to #Israel.
In response to the rocket fired from #Gaza to #Israel, we just struck a number of military targets in a Hamas naval facility in the northern Gaza Strip.
BREAKING: Rocket fired from #Gaza into #Israel. This is the 5th rocket fired from Gaza in the last 6 days.
Last night, our soldiers monitoring Israel's security fence with #Gaza identified this terrorist squad armed with rifles attempting to infiltrate into #Israel. In the time it takes to watch this video, our troops had already arrived at the scene in order to stop the terrorists.
3 rockets were fired from #Gaza at #Israel, 2 of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System. This is the 2nd consecutive night rockets have been fired from Gaza at Israeli civilians.
BREAKING: A rocket was just fired from #Gaza at #Israel. Thankfully, the rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System.
Attn: World Hamas and Islamic Jihad abuse the children of #Gaza indoctrinating them with hate and weaponizing them with grenades and firebombs. This child abuse must end.
UPDATE: 1 rocket was fired from #Gaza towards #Israel.
OPERATIONAL UPDATE: Last night our soldiers caught a Palestinian from Gaza that crossed into Israel carrying a grenade, he was a few hundred yards away from Israeli communities. That is what the IDF will be preventing today at the #Gaza border.
During the hours of the riots tomorrow, weather in #Gaza is expected to be around 80 degrees Fahrenheit. This heat is a danger to children, who are susceptible to dehydration & heat-stroke. We call on Hamas to keep their children in school & not endanger them at the riots.
The Hamas militant group in #Gaza distributed this message at 2:19pm local time via radio stations, TV stations, and on Twitter.
In this footage posted by the Hamas-affiliated Shehab News Agency, you can see and hear some of the 600 rockets that have been launched from #Gaza at Israel in the last 36 hours. We will continue to protect and defend Israeli civilians.
An update about ongoing #Gaza aggression against #Israel:
Dramatic scene on the streets of Ashdod, an Israeli port city, as a car goes up in flames following a direct hit from a rocket fired from #Gaza.
In response to 250+ rockets fired from #Gaza at Israel, we struck a Hamas HQ. In this building, Hamas used to order terror attacks and used to transfer money, supplies & logistics for the sake of killing Israelis. Emphasis on the "used to". We destroyed it.
This is the amount of rockets launched from #Gaza at Israeli civilians today: