JERUSALEM, March 15, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Israel said Friday its aircraft hit
around 100 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rocket
fire from the Palestinian enclave, including toward its economic capital Tel
Aviv.
“Fighter planes, attack helicopters and (other) IDF aircraft attacked
overnight about 100 terror targets of the Hamas terror organisation in the
Gaza Strip,” Israel’s military said in a statement.
It said targets included an office complex allegedly used by Hamas to
coordinate militant operations in the occupied West Bank.
Another was a “the main manufacturing site of standard-grade rockets in
the Gaza Strip,” an underground location, it said.
A security source in Gaza said dozens of strikes targeted bases belonging
to both Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad throughout Gaza.
More than 40 locations were targeted with about 100 strikes, the source
said.
A couple was injured when their house was damaged in Rafah in the southern
Gaza Strip, according to the source.
Residents reported a number of rockets being fired back at Israel in
response.
Sirens rang out in southern Israel early Friday and the Israeli military
said its missile defence system intercepted two rockets.
No Israelis had been reported wounded.