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Men, women, and children are running into bomb shelters as more rockets are launched from #Gaza into Israel.
Our tanks continue to strike Hamas targets in Gaza.
We will defend Israel.
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🚨 ADDITIONAL AIR-RAID SIRENS SOUNDING ACROSS SOUTHERN ISRAEL 🚨
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A Saturday morning little-league soccer game came under rocket fire from #Gaza today. The young Israeli players had to flatten themselves on the grass and cover their heads as they heard the sound of air-raid sirens.
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We have just started carrying out an aerial strike of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets across Gaza.
If you want to know why, take a look at what it feels like to be an Israeli living in southern Israel today and you'll understand:
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🚨 For the 5th hour straight, rockets are being launched from #Gaza at Israeli families 🚨
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Air-raid sirens just sounded across Israel, including in Bet Shemesh, a central Israeli city near Jerusalem, after a barrage of rockets were launched from #Gaza towards Israeli civilians.
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🚨 Sirens continue sounding across southern Israel 🚨
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This needs to be shared.
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RECAP:
🔺10:10am - Barrage of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza.
🔺10:15am - IDF strikes 2 rocket launchers in Gaza.
🔺10:30am - Rockets fired at Israel.
🔺11:00am - IDF strikes Hamas targets.
🔺12:30am - More rockets fired at Israel.
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🔺2:00pm - In response to the Gaza rocket fire, IDF begins aerial strikes of Hamas & Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets, including:
• 4 Hamas training & weapons manufacturing compounds.
• Hamas naval compound.
• PIJ targets.
• PIJ-Hamas joint military compound.
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This home was hit by a rocket fired from #Gaza. As you read this, more rockets are being launched from Gaza targeting more Israeli homes like this one.
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas continue to fire rockets at Israeli civilians as we enter the 8th hour of continuous air-raid sirens across southern Israel.
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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is also responsible for the sniper attack that took place during the Hamas riot in #Gaza yesterday, injuring 2 IDF soldiers inside Israel.
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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been digging a terror tunnel crossing from #Gaza into Israel, a tunnel that is being destroyed at this very moment.
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Pics Hamas published of its rocket launches. They blur the bottom. Why?
1. So we won't know where the launch site is
2. So you won't see that they’re firing from civilian homes in Gaza
We have 2 things to say:
1. We know where they’re firing from
2. The blur isn't that good
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200+ rockets rained down on the homes of Israeli families today. WATCH:
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In the middle of a LIVE broadcast from a home hit by a rocket, this Israeli journalist runs for shelter as 4 more rockets are fired towards where he is reporting. Watch as the Iron Dome intercepts them LIVE on air.
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🔺 8:30pm - After 200+ rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel, IDF struck 120 Hamas & PIJ terror targets in Gaza including:
• Underground Hamas rocket manufacturing site
• Weapons manufacturing sites inside a Hamas battalion HQ
• Hamas military intelligence & security offices
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Since 10:00am, terrorist groups in Gaza have been firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
Continuously.
The time is now 10:00pm.
That's 12 hours of rocket attacks.
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🚨AIR-RAID SIRENS SOUNDING IN THE CITY OF BE’ER SHEVA🚨
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We have just targeted Hamas' Military Intelligence and General Security Offices located in a building in Gaza.
Hamas used this building to hide terror infrastructure while abusing its location in the heart of a residential neighborhood.
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This is the amount of rockets launched from #Gaza at Israeli civilians today:
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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.
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