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After threatening to fire rockets at Tel Aviv, Hamas has fired a heavy barrage of rockets from Gaza into central & southern Israel.
Men, women, children, and the elderly are currently in shelters, protecting themselves from rockets aimed at them.
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🚨 Sirens sounding in 🚨
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A short while ago, a Palestinian vehicle broke through a military checkpoint and attempted to run over IDF soldiers southwest of Hebron. An IDF soldier at the scene operated to stop the vehicle according to standard procedures by firing toward it.
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Hamas announced that it will fire rockets at Tel Aviv at midnight.
The threat to target a city—to terrorize a population—is itself a violation of international law. If Hamas carries out its threat, it will be violating international law again by targeting civilians.
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Put yourself in this father's shoes.
You're driving with your newborn baby. Suddenly, you find yourself under rocket fire.
As rockets explode, your only thought is: keep your baby safe.
The IDF will continue to fight against Hamas to protect Israeli civilians.
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🚨Sirens sounding in southern Israel🚨
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We just thwarted an attempt by Hamas terrorists to launch a drone armed with explosives from Gaza City at Israel.
The drone fell on the launch squad and killed two Hamas operatives.
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After providing advance warning to civilians & time to evacuate, IDF fighter jets struck a multi-story building containing Hamas military intelligence assets.
The building contained civilian media offices, which Hamas hides behind and deliberately uses as human shields.
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6/ All the multi-story buildings targeted by the IDF were used for military purposes within each building.
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5/ We'll say it again: When Hamas places military assets inside such a building, it becomes a lawful military target. This is clear international law.
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This is the thread the world needs to see.
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4/ We called the building's residents and warned them to leave. We sent SMS messages. We dropped "roof knocker" bombs; they make loud noises and hit only the roof. We provided sufficient time to evacuate.
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2/ When Hamas uses a tall building for military purposes, it becomes a lawful military target.
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3/ The Israel Defense Forces struck a number of such buildings in recent days, but before we did so, we took steps to try and ensure that civilians would not be harmed.
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1/ Hamas has turned residential areas in the Gaza Strip into military strongholds.
It uses tall buildings in Gaza for multiple military purposes such as intelligence gathering, planning attacks, command and control, and communications.
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Here's some important context to the headlines you’re seeing about Israel Defense Forces operations in the Gaza Strip ⬇
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RAW FOOTAGE: This is the scene in a neighbourhood in Ramat Gan after a rocket from Gaza struck the area.
We will not let this terror go unanswered.
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Again. twitter.com/IDF/status/139…
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🚨RIGHT NOW: Sirens sounding in Tel Aviv and central Israel 🚨
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to fire rockets from Gaza toward Israeli civilians.
We will continue defending Israel.
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Overnight, we struck an opening of a Hamas terror tunnel below a hotel beach that was used to store weapons.
Hamas operates in civilian areas & uses innocent civilians as human shields.
To Hamas, an Israeli death is more valuable than a Palestinian life.
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At 6:03pm on Monday, Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Israeli civilians in Jerusalem.
Last night, we struck the multi-barreled rocket launcher that Hamas used to launch those rockets.
Terror targets civilians.
We target terror.
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Today is Shabbat, the day of rest, but people living in southern Israel haven't had the chance to.
For the 5th morning in a row, civilians are waking up and running to shelters to protect themselves from incoming rocket fire from Gaza.
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In response to the 2,000+ rockets fired from Gaza toward Israel, tonight we struck:
🔺a military intelligence site
🔺rocket launch sites
🔺surface-to-surface rocket launch sites
🔺2 terrorist squads
Hamas is paying the price for its terror.
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An average neighborhood in Gaza:
a mosque
a kindergarten
& a Hamas terror tunnel.
While Hamas deliberately embeds its terror infrastructure in civilian areas, the IDF takes all possible precautions to avoid harming civilians when striking.
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