“Combat planes targeted a Hamas weapons manufacturing site,” the IDF said in a statement.
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The Israeli army carried out early in the morning, Saturday, July 16, strikes on positions of the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The IDF said in a statement that it responded to rocket fire. “One of the rockets was intercepted by the missile shield”, according to the Israeli army. And to add that three others fell in open fields.
During the night, alarm sirens sounded in the city of Ashkelon and in other localities in southern Israel, bordering the Gaza Strip, to alert the population of these rocket attacks. In retaliation, the army carried out a series of airstrikes on Hamas positions in the Palestinian enclave, under Israeli blockade for 15 years.
“Fighter planes targeted a Hamas weapons manufacturing site” in the central Gaza Strip, the statement from the Israeli army explains. According to the Tsahal, this is “one of the most important rocket manufacturing sites in the Gaza Strip”. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem denounced the strikes, without reporting casualties.