Israel reportedly told Egyptian mediators that its airstrikes in the Gaza Strip would continue in reaction to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, Reports Al-Arabiya (in Arabic).
According to the Al Arabiya report, Egyptian mediators have called on Israel to prevent senior terrorist officials from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group.
A Middle Eastern diplomat earlier told The Times of Israel that Egypt is recently mediating between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in an effort to end the ongoing violence. A delegation from Cairo will depart tomorrow for Gaza, the diplomat said.
Dozens of rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza since Friday night, sending citizens of southern Israel to bomb shelters, many of which will spend the night.
The salvos came hours after the IDF introduced Operation Dawn in Gaza on Friday with moves on PIJ targets, killing a senior commander, Tayseer Jabari, in one of them.
Israel said the operation came as a reaction to what the leaders called a “concrete” risk of targeting Israeli civilians and in Gaza’s border areas.
“Jabari is guilty of the concrete risk during the last 3 or 4 days of firing anti-tank missiles and killing Israeli civilians or infantrymen in the Gaza border area,” IDF spokesman Ran Kochav said on Friday.
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