the second night in a row clashes continued in and around the Gaza strip. On Wednesday, a rocket fired in the early hours of the morning, Palestinian militants in the industrial area of the Israeli city of Ashkelon, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system. A few hours earlier had already been to Ashkelon, directed missile from the Iron Dome destroyed.
late On Tuesday evening there was a rocket alarm in the Israeli communities around the Gaza strip. According to the Israeli army explosives were sent over the border fence. The Israeli air force bombed as a reaction on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning for more targets in the Gaza strip. Among other things, a military was made the complex of Hamas in the Khan Yunis and a base in Rafah.
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Just two weeks before the parliamentary elections on 9. April in Israel, the conflict with the radical Islamic Hamas organization is coming to a head dangerous. In the great style, especially the tank was moved on Tuesday military equipment to the border with the Gaza strip.
After discussions with Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu the army announced on Tuesday evening, chief of staff General Aviv Kochavi have decided to move one more infantry Brigade and an artillery battalion in the South of Israel and to mobilize more reservists. Previously thousands of additional soldiers had been moved in to the Region and reservists activated. They are to be used primarily in the missile defense system Iron Dome.
“We are ready to do much more.”Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister and defense Minister
Netanyahu, who also serves as defense Minister, did not act according to the discussion in the military headquarters. In the afternoon, he was from Israel, in a Video-switching calls to the annual meeting of the Israeli-American lobby organization Aipac to Washington, he could not attend because of his premature return, due to the escalation around the Gaza strip. In this interview, Netanyahu announced: “We are ready to do much more. We will do what is for the defence of our people and of our state.”
the trigger for the latest clashes was to the East on Monday morning, a rocket attack from Gaza on a house in Central Israel, about 30 kilometers North of Tel Aviv. The house was destroyed, and seven people were injured. On Tuesday night, the Israeli army attacked then targets in the Gaza strip, according to information from the Ministry of health in Gaza, seven people were injured. Palestinian militants fired in the night to Tuesday a total of 60 rockets towards Israel.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 27.03.2019, 08:04 PM