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IAF Strikes Gaza After Missile Onslaught – Defense/Security – News – Israel National News.

Israel strikes 29 different Islamic Jihad and Hamas targets; no casualties reported yet.

IAF airstrike in Gaza (archive)

The Israeli Air Force struck 29 terror targets belonging to Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday evening as retaliation for firing a barrage of over 60 rockets on Jewish communities in southern Israel, the IDF announced Wednesday.

Palestinian Arab media is reporting now that the IAF are repeatedly slamming Islamic Jihad posts in Rafah, Khan Younis, Deir al – Balah, Beit Lahiya in north Gaza and another target in the center. Hamas’s military wing is also being targeted. No casualties have been reported yet.

The entire operation, which was launched at 10 pm Wednesday Israel time, was quick – and deadly. The IDF announcement stating that the operation focused on the 29 targets also noted just 45 minutes after the fact that all IAF pilots had returned safely to base after completing their mission.

IDF tanks fired at terror targets from the border earlier Wednesday, after Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned that the barrage would not go unnoticed. Of the three targets eliminated, two were in southern Gaza and one was in the North.

“We will not ignore the barrage of rocket fire tonight,” Ya’alon stated. “We will not allow Islamic Jihad or any other entity in the Gaza Strip to disrupt the lives of Israeli citizens.”

Ya’alon continued: “when there is no quiet in the south, we will not allow Gaza to have quiet either – to make Islamic Jihad terrorists regret their rocket fire.”

More to follow.

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