Rockets intercepted over Tel Aviv; At least 18 Palestinians reportedly killed since midnight
07/10/2014 07:03
Rocket sirens sounded in Tel Aviv on Thursday morning. The sirens were immediately followed by a series of audible explosions, most likely the Iron Dome interception system which picked off the rockets as they were heading toward the area.
Three rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome system.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian news site is reporting on Thursday that eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis.
According to Palinfo, the eight Palestinians, including four women and two children, were killed when an IAF jet struck a home in the Khan Yunis refugee camp.
Six of the dead were from the same family, Palinfo is reporting.
A health ministry spokesperson in Gaza told the site that 30 people were injured in the attack, which came without any warning.
An Israeli airstrike killed four members of the Gaza Strip’s main security apparatus, the Ma’an news agency is reporting on Thursday.
Three Islamic Jihad operatives were killed in an IAF strike in Gaza. The IDF Spokesperson said that the three men were involved in the firing of rockets at Israel.
The Israel Air Force has struck 320 targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, and 750 targets since the operation that began Monday night to extinguish Hamas rocket on Israel.
In overnight air strikes, 58 Hamas tunnels, 220 underground rocket launchers, and 46 command and control facilities – many located in the homes of senior Hamas commanders – have been destroyed, a senior military source said Thursday morning.
Some 80 command and control centers have been bombed since the start of the operation, the source added, and 513 underground rocket launchers have been destroyed.
Around 800 tons of explosives have been fired by air force jets on targets this week, the source said. The IAF’s current rate of fire is double that of Operation Pillar of Defense, launched in 2012 to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza. “We’ll see this trend increasing, as part of our firepower policy,” he said.
The increase in firepower comes as the IDF continues to amass Ground Forces on the border with Gaza. The source said Hamas is waking up on Thursday to “a lot of damage in Gaza. Its facilities are destroyed, as are the homes of its battalion and deputy battalion commanders that were used as command and control centers in every way. Hamas was running the operations of their units out of these homes. Some had weapons storage caches in them.”
The IDF is continuing the pressure on Hamas, he said, and the Gazan regime is frustrated by the fact that military power it has built up over years is systematically being destroyed. Iron Dome’s high effectiveness in stopping rocket fire on the Israeli home front is also frustrating Hamas, he said.
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WarSclerotic 
July 10, 2014 at 7:43 AM
The jihadist mindset is really puzzling to me. Is it possible that they do not realize that Israel has the means to kill not 7 terrorists but 70 or 700? How does their mind work? They attack Israeli population centers and then expect Israel to do what? Have they any notion of history and how other countries reacted when their citizens were under fire, the Brits during the Blitz and later under V1 and V2 attacks?
The situation is in fact so absurd that you have to think hard to come with an analogy, and you cannot because there is none. The nearest I could think of is that you have an enclave of Germans in Brighton with the SS launching rockets at London from Brighton. What would Churchill in his War Rooms at King Charles Street have done?
Well, I came out of the mamad (safe room) a few hours ago where all the staff of our hi-tech company went into after the sirens went off and was thinking: This is too absurd to describe. What other country in the world would tolerate this crap?
Imagine that Brighton were Gaza
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/imagine-that-brighton-were-gaza.html
American need some basic education about the Middle East. Here it is in a form of a quiz:
A mini 5 + 1 question quiz for Secretary Kerry
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/a-mini-5-1-question-quiz-for-secretary.html
July 10, 2014 at 8:39 AM
5 + 1 question quiz.
The response comes in two parts: 1) You value yourselves too dear; 2) Who gives a shit about the ‘quiz’?
July 10, 2014 at 5:38 PM
To Cap’n Midnight: It just demonstrates your total ignorance. If you knew anything about the Middle East you would try to learn more, like this you remain an ignoramus.
July 10, 2014 at 5:01 PM
I am sorry for the dangers, difficulties, and challenges that Israel faces. I hope that conditions will allow for Israel tosome day, soon, destroy her enemies….ALL of her enemies!!