Israel hits Hamas targets after rockets fired at Israelis early Sunday
(June 3, 2018 / JNS) Multiple targets within a military compound connected to the Hamas naval force were pounded by Israeli airstrikes early Sunday morning, following renewed rocket attacks by the terror organization on Israeli civilian areas.
Video of one of the IDF responses showed a large fireball in the sky over Shejaiya, a city which is a long-time stronghold of Hamas.
The military escalation is seen as shattering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, following last week’s series of rocket attacks by Hamas against Israel, and Israeli reprisal attacks on terror targets in Gaza. Palestinian terror groups launched over 100 rockets and mortar shells last week into southern Israel, and Israel responded by targeting over 65 Hamas and Islamic Jihad sites.
On Saturday night, Israeli firefighters and civilians worked to put out a massive fire near Kibbutz Carmia, near northern Gaza. The fire was started by incendiary “terror kites”, which Gaza terrorists have been flying across the border in order to kindle fields. The fire is estimated to have burned between 500 to 740 acres of fields and parts of a nature reserve.
