IDF says Air Force chief carried out sortie, struck Hamas targets in Gaza this week

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

FILE: Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar is seen in an F-15I fighter jet at the Hatzerim airbase, in an image published November 3, 2023. (Amit Agronov/Israeli Air Force)
FILE: Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar is seen in an F-15I fighter jet at the Hatzerim airbase, in an image published November 3, 2023. (Amit Agronov/Israeli Air Force)

The chief of the Israeli Air Force carried out a sortie and struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip this week, the military says.

An article on the IAF’s website says Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar visited the 69th Squadron — which flies a fleet of F-15I fighter jets — at the Hatzerim airbase this week.

It says Bar “took off for an operational sortie” with the squadron, which has been striking thousands of Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7.

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