The Hamas army wing said Thursday that a new rocket had begun that could succeed anywhere in Israel, as Gaza’s terrorist organization introduced a primary barrage of rockets to the center and south of the country on Thursday afternoon.
“The rockets were introduced to Ramon Airport with the Ayyash missile at a speed of 250 kilometers,” Abu Obeida, hamas army wing spokesman, said in a statement.
The rocket is named after Yahya Ayyash, one of Hamas’s leading bomb makers, guilty of dozens of Israeli deaths before being killed in 1996.
Among the sites attacked via Hamas is Ramon d’Eilat Airport, which Israel deviated from previous air traffic in the day, after postponing passenger flights to Ben Gurion International Airport after rocket attacks.
No sirens were heard as the rocket fired at Eilat, as the projectile landed in a transparent domain of the city, where it caused no injuries or damage, however, the Haaretz reported that the Israel Defense Forces were surprised by the diversity of the rocket. which flew more than two hundred kilometers (about 125 miles), after believing that rockets from the terrorist group’s arsenal had reached a maximum of 160 kilometers (almost a hundred miles).
Abu Obeida said Muhammad Deif, the head of Hamas’s army, called on “international airlines to stop their flights to any airport in occupied Palestine,” implicitly threatening that they could be affected. Several U. S. airlines have already begun cancelling flights to Israel due to rocket attacks.
“We tell the enemy: their airports and each and every point from northern Palestine to the south is within the diversity of our rockets,” Abu Obeida said.
Hamas also said it had introduced a series of “suicide drones,” unmanned aerial cars with explosive charges, in southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. The army has shown that it shot down at least two of the drones.
Channel 12 news reported that drones gave the impression of having primitive functions and did not appear to pose a serious danger; however, citizens of communities adjacent to Gaza have been temporarily ordered to remain indoors because of drones.
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The Israel Defense Forces have released a video featuring an F-16 fighter jet shooting down one of the armed suicide drones introduced from the Gaza Strip to a target off the coast.
In the video, you can see that the fighter jet blocks the “suicide drone”, which carried an explosive charge of approximately kilograms, before destroying the drone with a missile.
Abu Obeida said the attacks were “part of our reaction to the murder of our heroic leaders and engineers,” adding that the rockets used had partially evolved through the dead.
On Wednesday morning, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security conducted a large-scale operation targeting several high-ranking Hamas commanders, adding the head of their Gaza City battalion and several others involved in their arms production operations in the Gaza Strip He said the army.
According to the IDF, some 1,600 rockets and mortar grenades have been fired into Israel through terrorist teams in the Gaza Strip since fighting began Monday night. About one-fifth of them landed within the Palestinian enclave and, in at least one case, died. several young people when the rocket hit a school.
Hundreds of incoming projectiles have been intercepted via Iron Dome missile defense batteries, according to the army, which refuses to give accurate statistics on the factor because they can be used through terrorist teams to locate tactics to thwart the system.
The Israeli military said Thursday that the air defense formula had an intercept rate of about 90% of projectiles heading to populated areas. Terrorist teams have introduced rockets in large barricades to overwhelm the formula.
On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the IDF expanded its targets in the Gaza Strip to incorporate the establishments Hamas uses to govern the Palestinian enclave, adding its treasury and banks, said IDF spokesman Hidai. Zilberman.
The army said Thursday that it had bombed more than six hundred goals in the Gaza Strip, adding more than a hundred in the last 24 hours.
The IDF crusade in Gaza, officially known as Operation Guardian of the Walls, has so far been basically carried out through airstrikes, as well as artillery fire from the ground and sea; however, the army said it was preparing for the option of a soil. incursion.
Zilberman said land invasion plans will be submitted for approval through the IDF general on Thursday, in which case they would be passed on to Israeli political leaders for consideration.
A total of seven other people were killed in Israel, adding another 4 people who died Wednesday, adding a soldier killed through an anti-tank missile and a 5-year-old boy hit by shrapnel in Sderot.
Hamas-led fitness ministry in Gaza said the death toll had risen to 87 Palestinians, adding 18 young people on Thursday. The Israeli army said dozens of the dead were members of terrorist groups, some of whom were actively preparing to launch opposing attacks. Israel when they were attacked.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad showed the deaths of seven of its members, while Hamas stated that a senior commander and several other members had been killed. Israel and a Palestinian human rights group, Defense of children, said that several of the civilians had been killed by Hamas rockets falling into Gaza, not through Israeli attacks, Defence for Children says at least some of the youth were killed in the attacks.
The Israeli military also claims that the number of terrorists killed since Monday is much higher than Hamas has acknowledged.
Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman contributed to this report.
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