IDF says it hit Gaza launch strikes within minutes of rockets on Nahal Oz
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Following last night’s rocket fire on the southern city of Sderot and the nearby community of Nahal Oz, the IDF says it struck the areas in the Gaza Strip from which the rockets were fired, within several minutes of the attacks.
The IDF says it also struck a weapons depot where the rockets used in the attack on Nahal Oz were likely stored, as well as a tunnel shaft, a building used by Hamas, and rocket launchers that were spotted after the attack on Sderot.
Meanwhile, the IDF says it is continuing an offensive in the Khan Younis suburb of al-Qarara, with the Bislamach Brigade killing some 15 gunmen and locating tunnel shafts in the past day.
Nearby, in the Hamad Town residential complex, the IDF says the 7th Armored Brigade located and destroyed several rocket launchers and called in an airstrike against two gunmen spotted coming out of a weapons depot; the Givati Brigade located weapons as well as killed and captured several Hamas operatives; and the Commando Brigade raided the neighborhood’s high-rise towers, killing gunmen in close-quarters combat and capturing others who surrendered.
Meanwhile, in central Gaza, the IDF says the Nahal Brigade killed some 15 Hamas gunmen over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in airstrikes.
With the morning update, the IDF releases footage of strikes throughout the Strip over the past day.
