Israel is “ready to expand the current operation and inflict heavy blows on Gaza now and in the future”. The premier said so Benjamin Netanyahu speaking with mayors of southern Israeli municipalities that are under rocket attack from the Strip.
More than 40 Islamic Jihad rocket and mortar launch sites have been targeted in Israeli airstrikes on the territory of the Gaza Strip.
Today in response, over the course of an hour, over 100 Palestinian rockets were fired from Gaza to Israeli territory. Most fell within a radius of about 40 kilometers from the Strip while some also reached the center of the country. The Iron Dome air defense system limited the damage, reports Israeli public television Kan, and so far no casualties have been reported.
While the local health ministry reports that in the morning two militiamen were killed in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, in an Israeli bombing. According to journalistic sources, they would be militiamen from the brigades Abu Ali Mustafa, military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Ministry of Health has specified that yesterday the total death toll of Palestinians in Gaza in the fighting was 15 men, women and children.
The updated two-day Palestinian death toll of Israeli attacks has been updated: 20 died, including 4 women and 5 minors. The injured, according to the ministry, are 42. In hospitals in Gaza there is a climate of emergency, according to local sources.
