More Israeli bombings of Gaza and rocket launches from Gaza towards Israel after the Israeli launch of the “Breaking Dawn” operation. There is currently no talk of “rest or mediation” and the situation “is heading for an escalation,” said Islamic Jihad, which also rejected the Egyptian proposal for a temporary ceasefire, as reported by the al-Mayadeen television channel. linked to Hezbollah. “This is the time to respond to the occupation’s crimes,” a Jihad source told the channel. Egyptian negotiators had proposed a lull in hostilities to create the conditions for negotiating a more lasting ceasefire.
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Islamic Jihad – which yesterday lost commander Tayeer al Jabaari in a raid led by Jewish state forces – announced that it has “launched a campaign against Israeli aggression, the jihadi fighters stand ready to continue the war”. . The militants said they fired rockets at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tev Aviv and the cities of Ashdod, Be’er Sheva, Ashkelon and Netivot.
For its part, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say they are ready for an “operational week,” reports the Times of Israel. There are “many other Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip.” “So there is no reason to change the operational plans,” said the head of Gaza’s military division, General Nimrod Aloni, in an interview with Channel 12 News. “This is an operation against Islamic Jihad: it is clear that we are focused on Islamic Jihad, Hamas is not part of the picture at any point,” he added. “Hamas also chose, I would say wisely, not to interfere,” he said.
There are 350 rockets and mortar shells that Islamic Jihad has fired at Israel since Friday, of which 94 have fallen inside the Gaza Strip, Israel Defense Forces reported, specifying that another 29 fell in the Mediterranean Sea, two of them off the coast of Israel Tel Aviv. The Iron Dome air defense system intercepted 162 missiles with a 95.9% success rate. Alarm sirens resumed today in Telaviv and in the central cities of Rishon Lezion and Holon, as well as in Ashkelon, Sderot and other cities near the Gaza Strip border, according to Israeli media.
The Israeli military has confirmed raids on Islamic Jihad rocket launchers. According to a military spokesman, of the 130 rockets that passed through Gaza territory, the Iron Dome system intercepted more than 95% of the 160 rockets fired towards Israel. “We attacked 40 targets, including five missile launch sites and six missile depots or manufacturing sites,” Gen. Ran Kochav said in statements reported by Ynet. “Tayseer Jabari is not the ultimate target of Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” he added, quoted by the Times of Israel, referring to the group’s commander who was killed in an Israeli bombing of a Gaza apartment yesterday.
Meanwhile, the death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to 15 dead and 125 wounded. This was announced by the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip Health Ministry. How many of the dead are Islamic Jihad militiamen is not stated, but the killing of a 5-year-old girl is remembered. In addition, at least 7 people died in an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya in the north of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian media reported on this and wrote that 3 children were among the victims. Pictures of the young victims were shared on social media.
Palestinian media also report that many people have been injured in recent Israeli attacks on the northern Gaza Strip, particularly the city of Beit Hanoun. Numerous sites were also hit near the southern city of Khan Younis. In retaliation, over two hundred rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel since yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the only power plant in the Gaza Strip has shut down. There is no fuel. The electricity distribution company, reports al-Jazeera, stressed that this is a situation affecting all families, and not only, in the strip and asks to “intervene urgently” and “allow access to the supplies necessary for the operation”. Switchboard. The news comes after the start of Israel’s Operation Breaking Dawn against Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.