Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is the army correspondent for The Times of Israel.
The Israeli army attacked the Gaza Strip early Friday morning, hours after 4 rockets were introduced into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave.
The Israel Defense Forces said they introduced airstrikes on a “unique” underground rocket-making factory used by Hamas terror.
He posted a satellite photo of what he said of the site, which looks like a domain near several buildings and agricultural plots on the northwestern edge of al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. This is the third such facility affected since April.
“The attack was carried out in reaction to fire from Gaza territory into Israeli territory last night,” the Israeli military said in a statement shortly before four a. m.
The commander of the IDF’s so-called “firing center,” which coordinates the unit’s offensive operations, said the site was bombarded with 19 tons of ammunition.
“This will result in damaging the Hamas terror group’s attempts to arm itself,” said Col. Yud, who can only be known by the initial of his Hebrew name.
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There are no quick reports of injuries.
Photos shared on social media showed fireballs and smoke in Gaza moving through the air. Successive movements can be noticed hitting the same domain continuously in unverified video footage as planes howled overhead.
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One rocket intercepted through the Iron Dome air defense formula over a border town, and the other 3 landed in the Gaza Strip, according to the IDF.
No injuries were reported as a result of the rocket attacks.
No Palestinian organization claimed responsibility for the launches, the IDF said it held Hamas responsible.
The rocket fire came hours after a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member was killed in an Israeli army operation in the West Bank city of Jenin. The Gaza-based PIJ knew Farouk Salameh as a “commander” of the terror group.
In a joint statement, the IDF and Border Police said Salameh was concerned about the killing of a veteran police commando earlier this year and had planned additional attacks.
Israel responds with airstrikes opposed to Hamas sites, regardless of which organization launches the attack, signaling that it is guilty of any attack emanating from the territory. More rarely, he directed his counter-reaction at Islamic Jihad, if the terrorist organization claimed responsibility.
The last time rockets were fired from the coastal enclave into Israel was a three-day war against Islamic Jihad in August, into which some 1,175 rockets were introduced.
Tensions have soared in the West Bank recently, as the IDF has continued its counterterrorism offensive aimed primarily at the northern West Bank, although violence has not spread to Gaza.
The crusade has resulted in more than 2,000 arrests in near-night raids, but it has also left more than 125 Palestinians dead, many, though all, in attacks or clashes with security forces.
Earlier on Thursday, Israel said it had cut off internal and external checkpoints in the city of Nablus. Israel imposed the restrictions weeks ago, cracking down on the city in reaction to a new terrorist organization known as Lions’ Den. The army has carried out repeated operations in the city in recent weeks, killing or arresting the organization’s most sensible commanders.
The IDF’s counterterrorism offensive in the West Bank was launched after a series of Palestinian attacks that killed another 19 people earlier this year.
One Israeli killed in an attack in Hebron on Saturday, another woman killed in an alleged attack in September, and 4 foot soldiers killed in the West Bank in attacks and arrest operations.
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