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Terrorists Fire Rockets at Israel, IDF Strikes Hamas Targets in Response

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By: Arye Green

Gazan terrorists on Sunday fired three rockets at southern Israel, causing evacuation of a music festival that took place in Sderot. The IDF responded with airstrikes against Hamas targets.

The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted two of the rockets. Another rocket hit next to a highway in southern Israel, starting a fire, which has been put out by the local fire department.

A music festival that took place in southern Israel was halted due to the attack, as the crowd ran for shelter during the performance.

Shrapnel from an interception of one of the rockets hit an empty building in Sderot, causing damage.

According to the IDF spokesperson the strike targeted “a military base belonging to the Hamas terror group in northern Gaza, including the office of a Hamas battalion commander.”

Hamas has denied it was behind the rocket launches and Israeli sources asses that Islamic Jihad is to blame. The IDF spokesperson said, however, that “the IDF will continue to thwart attempts to hurt its citizens and considers the Hamas terror organization responsible for any action that takes place in and from Gaza.”

The head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Major General Kamil Abu Rukun, has written in Arabic to his Palestinian Facebook followers in Gaza that “hostile groups are warmongering and destabilizing the region, leading to further violence and deteriorating security. The Islamic Jihad under Iranian guidance is destabilizing the region and hurting your safety.”

The Islamic Jihad has been involved in the firing of rockets in the recent past, resulting in the death of a Palestinian mother and her baby this past May.

Abu Rukun also announced the reduction of fuel entering Gaza by half. “following to the firing of the rocket from the Gaza Strip toward the State of Israel, the Prime Minister and Minister Of Defense, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered to downsize the transfer of fuel through the Kerem Shalom crossing to the power station in Gaza by half, effective this morning and until further notice.” he said.

In other developments, media reports in Lebanon have indicated that on Sunday night Israeli Air Force (IAF) drones attacked a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) compound in Lebanese territory. It is unclear at this point if anyone was injured or killed in the attack.

The strike in Lebanon has not been confirmed nor denied by Israeli authorities.

The PFLP terror compound is situated in Qousaya, in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, near the border with Syria. The PFLP is headed by Ahmed Jibril, who is a known supporter of the Assad regime and associated with Hezbollah

The strike came on Sunday after the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, spoke at a rally celebrating the defeat of ISIS, and threatened that Hezbollah would attack Israel in response to the strikes in Syria.

“The time at which Israeli war jets used to strike targets in Lebanon while the usurping entity in Palestine kept safe has ended. From tonight, I tell the Israeli army on the border: wait for our response, which may take place at any time on the border and beyond the border. Be prepared and wait for us,” Nasrallah said.

The events in Lebanon followed the confirmed attack on Iranian terror targets in southern Syria on Saturday night. The strike in Syria prevented a “pending, large-scale attack of multiple killer drones,” the IDF stated. At least three terrorists were killed in the IAF attack.

(TPS)

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