With the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan approaching, Israel is once again in the grip of Palestinian and jihad terrorism. After a series of deadly terrorist attacks aimed at Jews in Jerusalem, the Gaza-based Islamic terrorist group Hamas over the weekend fired rockets aimed at Israeli town and cities.
Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted three out of four rockets fired into southern part of the country. No Israeli casualties were reported in the latest round of rocket attacks.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) responded with an air strike on an underground rocket factory in Gaza. “The Israel Defense Forces said fighter jets targeted an underground complex used to make rockets, responding to an earlier rocket over the weekend,” the Israeli news website Ynet reported Monday.
“Rockets launched at southern Israel; IDF retaliates against Hamas,” by Ariel Oseran, i24News, :
Israeli jets, tanks pound Hamas underground rocket production assets in Gaza Strip as sirens blare in southern communities
Israel’s military said it had struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Monday in retaliation for a rocket shot at Israel from the Palestinian enclave over the weekend. Shortly after the announcement, rocket sirens woke residents of Israeli communities near Gaza as they ran to safety in shelters.
At 4:11 a.m. Israeli time, rocket sirens went off in Sderot and nearby areas, followed by another siren in Ruhama several miles east at 4:38 a.m.
The Israel Defense Forces said fighter jets targeted an underground complex used to make rockets, responding to an earlier rocket over the weekend. A rocket was shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense on Saturday, as residents in communities near Gaza fled to bomb shelters for safety.
After the barrage, Israeli tanks targeted another facility used to make rockets. The military said it “holds Hamas responsible for all terrorist activity emanating from Gaza and it will face the consequences of the security violations against Israel.”
Meanwhile, the IDF and Israeli security forces continued their counterterrorism operations against terrorist hideouts in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank.
The Israeli forces on Monday nabbed two terrorists linked to the shooting attack that killed First Sergeant Ido Baruch last October.
“IDF arrests terrorists behind killing of Israeli soldier Ido Baruch,” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, February 13, 2023:
The IDF arrested early Monday morning two terrorists suspected of carrying out the shooting attack in which IDF Staff-Sgt. Ido Baruch was killed in October.
On October 11, Baruch, a soldier in the Givati Brigade, was killed after terrorists shot him near the Israeli West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron.
After the attack, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and IDF concentrated intelligence and operational efforts on locating the killers, and, a few days ago, the Shin Bet located the apartment where the terrorists were hiding.
A Palestinian was killed in armed clashes as Israeli forces arrested the two terrorists, Obkamel Ghori and Osama Tawil, in Nablus early Monday morning, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
According to the IDF, Tawil and Ghori were also injured during the clashes. No Israeli personnel were injured.
Linde B. says
In my opinion, Islam has to be the religion of Satan, the devil.😈 Why so many millions of people called Muslims cannot see this is beyond my comprehension. Pray 🙏 that Israel wins every time when they defend themselves from these vicious attacks.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
At some point, Israel will simply need to reoccupy Gaza: I see no way around that. Do that, and expel everybody there to Qatar
Deodata says
There would be worldwide outrage, even from so-called allies and especially the UN.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That’s always there when it comes to Israel anyway, so they should just put on a collective pair of noise-cancelling headphones, and go ahead and do it anyway. Also level the al Aqsa mosque while they are at it
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
Israel should have never given up Gaza in the first place.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Or even major cities in Judea like Bethlehem, Hebron or Jericho. Handing them over to the Palis has enabled them to desecrate, if not downright destroy, Jewish heritage sites like the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus
Walter Sieruk says
The use of a strong power of military might the IDF is the wise, right practical and appropriate method to control ,as in to limit, that vicious and deadly jihad entity, Hamas.
As the third President of the United States ,rightly, said “With every barbarous people…force is law.”