The Israeli military conducted air raids on the Gaza Strip throughout the night, targeting roads used by militants to reach the launch sites for cross-border rocket attacks, the army and witnesses said yesterday.
Residents in Gaza City said they had been unable to sleep as jets consistently broke the sound barrier during sorties that began shortly after midnight and were wrapped up around daybreak.
Palestinian security sources said that the air strike had targeted roads around the towns of Beit Hanun and Beit Lahiya in the north of the territory and close to the border into southern Israel. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The army, which has already declared a part of northern Gaza as a security zone, said that the roads were being used by militants to reach areas on the edge of the border into southern Israel.
10 roads attacked
"Our aircraft attacked 10 roads in the north of the Gaza Strip giving access to sectors from where the terrorist organizations can fire Qassam rockets at our territory," she said in reference to rockets named after the armed wing of the radical Islamist movement Hamas.
The raids followed an overnight Qassam attack on the town of Sderot in the south of Israel which caused neither casualties nor damage.
Earlier, Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over the north of the Gaza Strip warning inhabitants not to expose themselves by moving around, a military source said.
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz ordered the application from Monday night of a decision to create a zone where movement of Palestinians is limited in the north of the Strip, a spokesman for his ministry said.
An army statement said that the leaflets had been dropped "in the areas from which terror activity is being carried out against Israel."
Ongoing attacks
The Israeli Defense Force notified the Palestinian population that it will not tolerate the ongoing attacks carried out by terror organizations against the Israeli population, and has stressed that civilians located in areas from which these organizations operate are endangering themselves.
Israel pulled all its troops out of the Gaza Strip in September, a month after the evacuation of all Jewish settlers from the territory.
Mofaz has played down the idea of staging a ground operation in Gaza, insisting that the army has the means to put an end to the attacks without re-entering the territory.
PHISHING: The con might appear convincing, as the scam e-mails can coincide with genuine messages from Apple saying you have run out of storage For a while you have been getting messages from Apple saying “your iCloud storage is full.” They say you have exceeded your storage plan, so documents are no longer being backed up, and photos you take are not being uploaded. You have been resisting Apple’s efforts to get you to pay a minimum of ￡0.99 (US$1.33) a month for more storage, but it seems that you cannot keep putting off the inevitable: You have received an e-mail which says your iCloud account has been blocked, and your photos and videos would be deleted very soon. To keep them you need
For two decades, researchers observed members of the Ngogo chimpanzee group of Kibale National Park in Uganda spend their days eating fruits and leaves, resting, traveling and grooming in their tropical rainforest abode, but this stable community then fractured and descended into years of deadly violence. The researchers are now describing the first clearly documented example of a group of wild chimpanzees splitting into two separate factions, with one launching a series of coordinated attacks against the other. Adult males and infants were targeted, with 28 deaths. “Biting, pounding the victim with their hands, dragging them, kicking them — mostly adult males,
The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations. The Guardian reviewed three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media, which showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border. Lebanese media has reported more mass detonations in other border villages, but satellite imagery was not readily available to verify these claims. The demolitions came after Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz called for the destruction of
SUPERFAN: The Japanese PM played keyboard in a Deep Purple tribute band in middle school and then switched to drums at university, she told the British rock band Legendary British rock band Deep Purple yesterday made Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s day with a brief visit to their high-profile superfan as they returned to the nation they first toured more than half a century ago. Takaichi’s reputation as an amateur drummer, and a fan of hard rock and heavy metal has been well documented, and she has referred to Deep Purple as one of her favorite bands along with the likes of Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. “You are my god,” a giddy Takaichi said in English to Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice, presenting him with a set of made-in-Japan
RSS