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The israeli Army bombed this night military targets in the Gaza strip following the shooting shortly before midnight, a rocket from the palestinian enclave against its territory.
“This night, a rocket was launched from the Gaza strip against israeli territory. In response, recently, combat aircraft of the Israel Defense Forces struck eight military targets in three complexes of Hamas in the Gaza strip,” reported the Army in a press release shortly after 4.00 am local time (1.00 am GMT).
Among the objective, were “a military complex in northern Gaza, a training center and a warehouse and manufacturing center of weapons in the south of the gaza strip”, informs the note military.
In this, the Army considers the Hamas movement -which controls de facto the territory, and considered a terrorist group by Israel, the EU, the US and other countries – responsible for “all the events that occur in Gaza and emanating from her,” and warns that “will suffer consequences for the terror which has been carried out against israeli civilians”. In addition, it highlights that the Army is prepared for “a wide range of scenarios”.
Before the stroke of midnight, they jumped alarms anti-aircraft guns in the communities close to Gaza, Eshkol and Merhavim. Shortly after, the Army announced that it had activated the system of anti-missile Iron Dome, which “launched an interceptor toward the missile”. As reported by the Times of Israel, the Iron Dome failed to intercept the rocket, which fell in an open field without causing casualties.
The violent incident takes place a week after a rocket fired from Gaza impactase in a housing in Bersheva (40 miles) that was wrecked and he managed to save a mother and her three children, who got in a hurry in a bomb shelter when they heard the alarms. Another rocket fell into the sea, near the coast of Tel Aviv.
The Security Cabinet met then urgent and decided not to initiate an operation of scale against Gaza to understand that the launching of rockets -the militia refused to be responsible – could have been due to a fault, perhaps a lightning strike on a mechanism that will be activated.
This Wednesday, the israeli Defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said he did not believe in the possibility of a cease-fire with Hamas, which is trying to mediate The Cairo several months ago with the support of the UN, and urged them to conduct a military operation lasts against the coastal enclave, a palestinian.
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