IDF hits 103 targets in overnight fighting

The Israel Defense Forces exposes and destroys some 20 concealed rocket launchers, strikes nine tunnels and hits 103 “terror targets” all told, it says Friday morning.

“Additionally, IDF ground forces are advancing in their respective missions, including identifying and combating the terror tunnel threat,” the IDF says in a statement.

The initial results “thus far fall in line with IDF expectations.”

The army says the goal of the Gaza op “is to establish a reality in which Israeli residents can live in safety without continue[d] indiscriminate terror, while striking a significant blow to Hamas’s terror infrastructure.”

Since the start of the ground op, the army counts some 50 rockets fired at Israel, 25 of which actually land inside Israel. Twenty are intercepted by the Iron Dome and a handful fail to make it out of Gaza.

An anti-tank missile also hit an armored bulldozer, the army says, damaging the vehicle but not the soldiers operating it.