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Israeli Military has Begun Striking Throughout Gaza

An Israeli helicopter fires at a target in the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket attack earlier in the day on a home in central Israel on March 25, 2019. (Screen capture: Sky News Arabia)

Tel Aviv, MINA – The Israeli military began bombing targets throughout the Gaza Strip on Monday evening, some 12 hours after a rocket fired from the coastal enclave slammed into a home in central Israel, injuring seven people.

“At this time, the Israel Defense Forces has started to attack terror targets belonging to the Hamas terror group throughout the Gaza Strip,” the army said in a statement shortly after 5:30 p.m, Times of Israel reported.

Hamas radio reports that the bombing is also targeting Hamas leader Ismail Haniya.

Residents in the northern part of the Gaza Strip reported hearing the sounds of explosions on Monday evening. Local media reported  that air strikes landed in an agricultural area east of Khan Younis in Gaza’s south.

Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from the Gaza-Israel border, said several empty buildings associated with Hamas have been hit.

“We’ve seen several plumes of smoke coming up from the Gaza skyline behind us and we’ve seen confirmation from the Israeli military that these strikes have begun,” he said. (T/RI-1/R04)

 

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)

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