Following rocket interceptions launched at Israel and triggering alarms in the envelope and in Ashkelon, Air Force aircraft bombed Hamas terror targets across Gaza
Documentation of the IDF attack in the Gaza Strip // Photo from Palestinian media
The Israeli Air Force attacked terror targets in Gaza tonight in response to the rocket launch to the south. The IDF said that planes and helicopters attacked several targets of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, including military complexes. The IDF emphasized that Hamas is responsible for what is happening in and out of the Gaza Strip - and it will have consequences for actions against Israeli civilians.
Last night, red color alarms were heard in Ashkelon and in several localities in the southern sector. The IDF confirmed that one rocket launched from the Gaza Strip was fired by an iron dome.
Alarms were heard while Prime Minister Netanyahu visited Ashkelon and attended an election conference for the primaries tomorrow in Likud. The prime minister's security guards took him off the stage. After a few minutes, Netanyahu returned to the stage and said: "He had previously fired not with us. Whoever fired now would pack the belongings," referring to Abu al-'Ata, the senior jihad that was eliminated.
# شاهد..لحظة استهداف طائرات الاحتلال موقع تابع للمقاومة قرب غزة قبل قليل pic.twitter.com/hGZs4dCT7i
- المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) December 26, 2019
Israeli House Speaker Avigdor Lieberman, who attended the wedding at Ofakim, was also smuggled into a protected space by his security guards.
A few months ago, a week before the September elections, a similar case occurred when Prime Minister Netanyahu attended an election conference in Ashdod. Rockets then fired at the city triggered the alarms and the prime minister had to get off the stage.
Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz responded to the incident: The situation in which Israeli citizens are at the mercy of terrorists, and the Israeli prime minister cannot patrol part of his country is a certificate of poverty for the security policy in the South, and a loss of deterrence that no sovereign state can accept. The policy and restore rest and quiet to the residents of the south. "
The work-bridge said in response to the Prime Minister's evacuation following the alarm: "Again Amir Peretz's Iron Dome was rescued for Netanyahu's help. The truth must be said. Without an Iron Dome that maintains the Israeli home front, Netanyahu was no longer prime minister."
