The IDF has confirmed — at long last — striking Gaza in a series of reprisal attacks, though a statement from the army is short on details.
The military spokesperson says planes hit “a number of terror infrastructure belonging to the terror group Hamas in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.”
It also confirms tank fire directed at a Hamas facility earlier in the day.
A picture taken from the Israel-Gaza border shows an Israeli military Apache helicopter flying above the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on October 5, 2016.(Jack Guez/AFP)
It says the heavy bombing campaign came in response to a rocket shot from Gaza that hit the town of Sderot earlier in the day, adding that it hold Hamas, which rules the Strip, responsible for all fire emanating from the Palestinian enclave.
“Today’s attack, the second since the beginning of August in the city of Sderot, is the direct result of Hamas’s terror agenda in the Gaza Strip that encourages deliberate attacks against Israeli civilians. The IDF remains committed to the stability of the region and the defense of the residents of southern Israel in the face of terror,” spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner says.
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