JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least 300 rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza on Saturday, directly hitting two houses and seriously injuring an 80-year-old
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least 300 rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza on Saturday, directly hitting two houses and seriously injuring an 80-year-old woman.
The Israel Defense Forces responded on Saturday evening by bombing 120 Gaza military targets including a six-story building in a residential area of the northern Gaza Strip, where Hamas terrorist offices were located. The IDF said it also destroyed from the air an Islamic Jihad terror tunnel that stretched from southern Gaza into Israel and had been under surveillance for some time.
The Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas, said that a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 14-month-old baby were killed in the Israeli air strikes.
The IDF also struck several Hamas military compounds used for training and for the manufacture of weapons, as well as a compound used by the Hamas Navy and another belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The rockets fired from Gaza into Israel beginning at about 10 a.m. damaged homes and apartment buildings and reportedly also hit a high school building empty of students for the weekend. The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted dozens of the rockets, according to the IDF.
On Saturday, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad terror organization released a videothreatening to launch rocket attacks on the nuclear facility in Dimona as well as on Ben Gurion International Airport in central Israel. The video also showed footage of the port at Ashdod in northern Israel and refineries in the northern city of Haifa indicating that they were potential targets, the Times of Israel reported.
