WATCH: Rocket Explodes on Israeli Highway in Broad Daylight
The citizens of Israel are under siege from terrorists who are indiscriminately firing rockets into the country, hoping to murder civilians. The barrage comes in response to the Israeli military’s pinpoint-accurate strike against a senior Islamic Jihad militant, who was targeted and killed today. The Wall Street Journal reports some of the details:
Israel’s military killed a senior leader of the second-largest militant group in Gaza on Tuesday, prompting fighters in the Palestinian enclave to fire at least 160 rockets into Israel that set off sirens and forced people into bomb shelters across the country. Israel’s military said it killed Baha Abu Al-Ata, senior leader of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic, in a targeted airstrike. It accused the militant commander of orchestrating numerous rocket attacks against Israel in recent months and of planning another imminent attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Mr. Abu Al-Ata as “a ticking bomb” who threatened Israeli civilians, while speaking to reporters at Israel’s military headquarters in Tel Aviv…Israeli authorities said schools and nonessential work across southern Israel and the Tel Aviv region were suspended after rockets reached the area. Israeli medical authorities said they treated at least 39 people: 20 injured from running to bomb shelters, including an 8-year-old girl in critical condition, 17 suffering from shock, and one injured by shrapnel.
An extraordinary detail from AFP underscores the lengths to which Israel went to limit the collateral damage from its strike, as well as the quality of its intelligence into the liquidated terrorist’s specific whereabouts:
The initial Israeli raid in the early hours of Tuesday, thought to have been carried out by a drone, killed Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu Al-Ata, 42. Islamic Jihad confirmed his death along with that of his wife….Nadav Argaman, the head of Israeli domestic security agency Shin Bet, which took part in the targeted strike, said the operation “allowed us to reach the level of the bed in which he slept, the small room in which he lived, in which he hid.”
Rocket hits middle of the road in #Israel
Terrifying #IsraelUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/a57TzinnC5
— (((Emily Schrader))) (@emilykschrader) November 12, 2019
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