Israeli tanks, fighter jets, attack helicopters and other aircraft carried out strikes on roughly 100 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip over the past three weeks in response to rocket launches and airborne arson attacks by terror groups in the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The announcement comes after Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement on Monday night, as a result of which terrorists in the Strip halted the violence along the border and Jerusalem reopened Gaza’s fishing zone and border crossings.
The military says the targets of its strikes included 20 observation posts, 30 tunnel openings and tunnel construction facilities, 35 munitions caches and weapon-manufacturing sites, along with 10 locations connected to Hamas’s aerial capabilities — both drones and anti-aircraft weaponry — and several sites used by its naval commando unit.
“These strikes represent significant damage to the military infrastructure and armaments of the Hamas terror group,” the IDF says in a statement.
Though the IDF has reported on its near-nightly reprisal raids from August 12 to 30, the military had not revealed the specific targets of its strikes until Tuesday, after the ceasefire was announced.
— Judah Ari Gross
A firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire started by an incendiary device launched from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on the border with Gaza, August 24, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
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