As a result of the killing Tuesday of an Israeli civilian on the Israeli-Gaza border by a sniper from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) retaliated and targeted terror sites in the Gaza Strip.
The civilian was doing maintenance works on the Israel-Gaza security fence in the northern Gaza Strip when he was hit. He was evacuated to a nearby hospital by an army aircraft but died of his injuries.
Following this attack, Israel Air Forces (IAF) aircrafts and IDF tanks and infantry targeted a weapon manufacturing facility and a terror infrastructure in the southern Gaza Strip, a terror site and another terror infrastructure in the central Gaza Strip, and a concealed rocket launcher in the northern Gaza Strip. ‘’Direct hits were confirmed,’’ the IDF said.
The IDF said that such incidents are ’’ becoming more frequent.’
‘’The Israel Defense Forces will not tolerate aggression against the State of Israel and maintains the right to protect Israel’s civilians and soldiers,’’ spokesperson Lt-Col. Peter Lerner said. ‘’ Hamas is responsible for all acts of terror emanating from the Gaza Strip,’’ he added.
Last Thursday, a rocket from Gaza was fired into Israel. Then on Friday, there were riots in Gaza and several attempts to infiltrate the security fence. On Saturday, an attempt by terrorists to breach.
Earlier last week, a sniper from Lebanon killed an IDFsoldier, Major Sergeant Shlomi Cohen, near Rosh Hanikra, on the border between the two countries.
On Sunday, a tragedy was prevented in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, when a bomb exploded in a bus in the city, shortly after the passengers were evacuated after it was spotted.
The police said that initial evidence pointed to an attempted terrorist attack, presumably by Palestinians, the first of this kind in just over a year.
In a recent interview with Al Aqsa TV, the Hamas regime’s official station, senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Ahmed Almadalel praised the attempted terror attack in Bat Yam.
Almadalel told the interviewer that “there are many operations such as this – carried out by lone individuals or organizations – and it only stresses the fact that the conflict with the Zionist enemy is far from over.”
“There may be a [terror] operation anywhere,” he went on to say. “I believe that the acts will continue and we would like to stress, as ever, that we are on the verge of a huge explosion in the face of our Zionist enemy for its crimes against our people.”