IAF Confirms Hits on Hamas Targets

(As a result, schools in those three cities are closed.)

by Hillel Fendel

Security alerts are high on both the southern front and in Jerusalem. Police in the capital have raised their level of alert, following yesterday’s terrorist bombing near the Central Bus Station that killed a British tourist.

  Hamas terrorists continue to fire rockets at Israel. A Kassam exploded south of Ashkelon around 8:00 this morning, following a rocket fired overnight towards the Eshkol region; no one was hurt or damage caused in either attack.

In response to the ongoing rocket fire, Israel Air Force (IAF) aircraft targeted a smuggling tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip and a terror activity site in northern Gaza. The army reported direct hits.

Just in the past four days alone, over 25 rockets and mortar shells have hit Israeli territory, including five Grad rockets fired at the cities of Ashkelon, Ashdod and Be’er Sheva. As a result, schools in those three cities are closed. This is official city policy in Ashdod and Be’er Sheva, while in Ashkelon, the closings were a Municipal Parents Committee decision, made contrary to official city policy.

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