Tid för nytt Gazakrig ? (med uppdateringar)

Sedan onsdag kväll har Israel angripits med över 200

missiler från Gaza. Som vanligt har trakten kring 

Sderot fått ta den värsta smällen.

Hittills rapporteras om sju skadade. 

Iron Dome har varit i flitig användning och

lyckats stoppa de flesta raketerna på väg

mot bebodda områden. 

Lyckligtvis har huvuddelen av raketerna som 

vanligt hamnat i ökenområden. 

Följ utvecklingen:

Jerusalem Post 

 Arutz Sheva

Times of Israel

IDF:s Twitter

Times of Israel skrev nu på morgonen:

A senior army official warned Thursday morning that Israel was nearing a full-blown military confrontation in the Gaza Strip after hundreds of rockets were launched overnight by Palestinian terror groups, adding that the government could begin evacuating communities near the coastal enclave in preparation. 

“We are rapidly nearing a confrontation,” the IDF senior officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Hamas is making serious mistakes, and we may have to make it clear after four years that this path doesn’t yield any results for it and isn’t worth it.” 

According to IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, at least seven people in total were injured in southern Israel by the Gaza rocket attacks, including a woman who was seriously injured when a projectile struck her home in the Eshkol region of southern Israel.

In response to the attacks, the Israeli army said, it struck over 140 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight.

The military said its raids targeted training compounds as well as weapons-manufacturing facilities and storage warehouses. The air force also targeted sites from which rockets were being launched, including a car that the army said was being used by a cell of terrorists. One Hamas operative was reportedly killed in the airstrike. Unconfirmed reports claimed he was the relative of a senior Hamas commander.

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Regeringen sammanträder kl 18 idag.
Beslut om vidare åtgärder förväntas då. 

"Israel's security cabinet instructed the IDF to 
continue to act with force after its meeting at the IDF 
headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening."

"The cabinet has instructed the IDF to continue 
to act with force against perpetrators of terror,"
 a brief cabinet statement said.

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IDF-rapport vid middagstid torsdag:

Även de större städerna Beersheba och
Ashkelon i regionen har beskjutits med
Grad-raketer.

IDF slog tillbaka mot Hamas 
"polishögkvarter"

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Författaren Joel C Rosenberg visar på sin
blogg hur Hamas bombterror eskalerat
kraftigt i år. Läsvärt !
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Sderot idag: Raket från Hamas slår ned några 
meter från en lekplats full med barn....