IDF confirms: Rocket fired from Gaza lands in Israel, no injuries

Gaza Strip landed in open territory in southern Israel on Thursday night, the IDF confirmed. No injuries or damage were reported. Security forces were searching for the remnant of the projectile.

IDF looking into rocket alert siren sounded near Gaza The IDF was investigating on Thursday night after a rocket alert siren was activated in the Sderot area near the border with Gaza. There were no reports of residents hearing any explosions.

Terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket at the Sderot area on Thursday evening, ending four months of quiet and triggering air raid sirens in the area. The projectile exploded harmlessly in an open, uninhabited area, the IDF said, adding that security forces were searching for its remnants. In response, the IDF struck a terror target in northern Gaza to the earlier rocket attack, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said on Thursday shortly before midnight. It was not immediately clear which organization launched the attack.

Following the rocket, the IDF announced that Gazan worshippers will not be able to go to Jerusalem for Friday prayers at al-Aksa Mosque this week. Yesh Atid MK Haim Jelin, formerly head of the Eshkol Regional Council near Gaza, said that for the residents of the South, Israel’s 67th Independence Day “remains a day of no hope.” “The government of Israel must act with a firm hand against terrorism, and at the same time, act diplomatically to reach an agreement that will place quiet and security on the horizon,” Jelin added. On December 20, Palestinians fired a rocket at a farming area in the Eshkol region, setting off warning sirens and sending residents fleeing for cover. The Israel Air Force responded within hours to that incident, bombing a Hamas base in southern Gaza. There were no casualties in the incident, the third time Palestinians had fired a rocket into Israel since the truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect on August 26, ending a 50-day conflict last summer. Following the rocket fire, Zionist Union MK Omer Bar- Lev complained that Thursday’s projectile was not the first since Operation Protective Edge.

“The operation’s failure to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough that could change the reality for the citizens of the Gaza periphery is a strategic mistake by Netanyahu and a missed opportunity,” Bar-Lev said. “Netanyahu in his last term made residents of the South cannon fodder of his passive foreign policy. I hope that in his next term his policy will change and he will work actively to bring about the demilitarization of Gaza and restore Israel’s deterrence in the South.” Likud MK Miri Regev said Israel must act determinedly and immediately and not permit the terrorist organizations to raise their heads “with a drizzle of rocket fire.”

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Hamas Clearing Out as IDF Retaliates

By: Jewish Press News Briefs Published: April 24th, 2015

An IDF tank along Gaza's border

Arab sources report that Hamas evacuated military sites and Hamas offices in expectation of an Israeli retaliatory attack.

A short time later, IDF tanks shelled a site in Beit Hanoun in Gaza in response to the rocket(s) launched at Israel from Gaza on Thursday evening.

An IDF Spokesperson confirmed the IDF attack on a terror infrastructure site in Gaza.

In addition to the military strike, Israel will not allow Gazans to cross over into Israel on Friday to pray on the Temple Mount.

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After four months of quiet, a rocket was fired on Thursday evening from Gaza towards communities in southern Israel. The rocket exploded in an open field in the Sha'ar Ha Negev Regional Council. There were no injuries or damage reported.Close to midnight on Thursday, the IDF tanks attacked a Hamas position in the northern Gaza Strip in retaliation for the rocket that landed in southern Israel a few hours earlier.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++MY TWO-CENT WORTH.-
HERE WE GO AGAIN...PLAYING THEIR GAME AGAIN...LIKE FOLLOW THE LEADER...

WE MUST HAVE A HUGE PRE-PREEMPTIVE RAID AND RAZE GAZA TO THE GROUND BY SECTORS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. DIVIDE THE AREA INTO 5 RECTANGLES AND RAZE EACH ONE EVERY 48 HOURS GIVING CHANCE FOR THE HADJIS TO LEAVE.

IF THEY DECIDE TO STAY...TOO BAD...BOMB THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE AS GENERAL CURTISS LEMAY ONCE SAID.

AFTERWARDS WE COULD CLEAN IT UP, REBUILD IT AND START NEW...IT WAS OURS YOU KNOW, AND SOME STUPID POLITICIANS GAVE IT BACK.

THE SACRED SOIL OF ISRAEL IS NOT NEGOTIABLE BY ONE SQUARE INCH...WE WILL SETTLE IT BACK AND YOU WILL SEE IT FLOURISHING IN JUST A FEW YEARS. ALSO WE MUST ANNEX JUDEA AND SAMARIA NOW!!!! THAT IS IT!!!