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The Israeli prime minister said “there is no army in the world that does more than the Israeli army, in the Israeli security services, in Israeli intelligence to prevent collateral damage.”
The violent conflict with Gaza did not stop mothers and kids from three Muslim countries observing Ramadan at Save a Child’s Heart in Holon.
Israeli warplanes strike 40 targets in southern Gaza, including the homes of several Hamas commanders, and destroy seven miles of the terror group’s “Metro” tunnel system.
Military stresses that rockets and suicide drones launched at the Tamar offshore gas installation over the past week never placed it in danger, but that it was nonetheless ordered to shut down.
Israeli aircraft also hit the residences of the head of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and of his brother, Muhammad Sinwar.
Most arrivals proceeding on schedule are being diverted from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Eilat’s Ramon International Airport.
“I want to thank President [Joe] Biden for his unequivocal support. You cannot equate a democracy that values life with a terror organization that glorifies death,” says the Israeli prime minister in a televised address.
“This week has been a clear reminder that wherever anti-Zionism goes, anti-Semitism quickly follows,” said Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism.org.
Shortly after midnight on Friday, the Israel Defense Forces appeared to give the impression that a ground offensive was underway, sending Hamas operatives into tunnels and the direct path of a massive wave of Israeli airstrikes.
The air-defense system has maintained an interception rate of more than 90 percent, despite the heavy barrages directed at Israeli cities by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
As the current firepower of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad demonstrates, Gaza’s factions have not been resting on their laurels in recent years, exploiting a period of quiet to create a domestic industry of weapons production.
Anticipating a response by Hamas, the military ordered Israelis living within four kilometers of the border to remain in their bomb shelters.
