![]() “The Qassam Brigades are launching their biggest rocket strike against Tel Aviv and its suburbs, with 130 rockets, in response to the enemy’s targeting of residential towers.” “We are now carrying out our promise,” the Islamist organization’s armed wing said in a statement. Other eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli warnings came at least an hour before the attack. CNN reported that the building’s doorman was seen speaking on his cell phone with someone in Israel, who also instructed him to help residents leave the site. The IDF carried out 4 separate drone ‘roof-knock warnings’ prior to striking the 13-storey Hanadi Towers building in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City to give time for residents to vacate the premises. The IDF said that the building, housed “multiple” offices belonging to the terror group, including ones for military research and development and military intelligence. ![]() Hamas claimed it fired the heavy missile salvo at the major metropolitan area in response to an earlier Israeli air strike that downed a tower block in Gaza. The Ben Gurion International Airport was temporarily closed to protect outbound and incoming flights, and the IDF Homefront Command instructed all residents of the Tel Aviv area to remain in their bomb shelters overnight. Pedestrians ran for shelter, and diners streamed out of Tel Aviv restaurants while others flattened themselves on pavements as the sirens sounded. Hostilities between Israel and Hamas escalated dramatically yesterday, with the most intensive aerial exchanges for years.Īir raid sirens and explosions were heard in Israeli communities more than 70 km (45 miles) up the coast and into the south amid sounds of explosions as interceptor missiles streaked into the sky towards the incoming rockets.Ī bus driver was seriously injured when his bus burst into flames caused by the explosion of a rocket. A 5-year-old girl was hurt in the same attack. More than 1,100 rockets have been indiscriminately fired from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip toward Israel’s southern and central civilian communities, while the IDF has simultaneously been conducting hundreds of strikes against targets across the Palestinian enclave.Ī massive Hamas rocket attack on Tel Aviv and its vicinity last night claimed the lives of 3 people, bringing the Israeli death toll in the current conflict to 6.Įarly this morning, a 52-year-old man and his 16-year-old daughter were killed when a rocket fired from Gaza hit their home in an Arab area near the city of Lod.Ī 65-year-old Israeli woman was killed in the Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv.
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