Home Front emergency orders extended until Friday

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10 May 2023, 6:23 pm Edit

Israeli women and a dog take cover in a public shelter from rockets fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

The Home Front Command extends its emergency orders for communities near Gaza until Friday afternoon.

The measures keep schools and kindergartens closed and place limits on public gatherings to less than 10 people in open areas and 100 in protected spaces.

Beaches in the area will remain closed and workplaces are only allowed to operate if workers can reach a bomb shelter in the required amount of time.

Earlier, Defense Minister Gallant put in a request to enlarge the area to all communities within 80 kilometers of Gaza as Islamic Jihad terrorists fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.