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Israeli Air Force strikes Gaza targets in retaliation for rocket attack on Sderot

IDF confirms that “terror infrastructure and military compounds” were hit in retaliation for a rocket striking a Chabad-run yeshivah.

Palestinians inspect the damage after Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 14, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Palestinians inspect the damage after Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 14, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

The Israel Air Force struck several targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning after a rocket fired from Gaza on Thursday night hit a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshivah in Sderot.

According to a statement issued on Friday by the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit, targets hit included “terror infrastructure and military compounds,” as well as a complex used by Hamas’s naval forces.

“The IDF will continue to act against attempts to harm Israeli citizens and sees the Hamas terrorist organization as responsible for all actions in and from the Gaza Strip,” said the IDF spokesperson, a statement that has been repeated several times in recent weeks in connection with an array of attacks from Gaza.

Expecting further attacks, Hamas has reportedly ordered all active military and training sites to be evacuated.

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