The IDF attack was carried out in response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory earlier tonight.
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IDF fighter jets and aircraft attacked a number of terror targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday night after a rocket landed in an open field in Israel, the IDF announced.
Rocket sirens sounded in Sde Avraham and Holit, both located along the southern Gaza Strip border, on Friday evening.
Soon after, the IDF alongside local authorities revealed that one rocket was spotted landing in an open field, injuring none.
This comes after a rocket landed in an open area in Israeli territory on Thursday evening, setting off rocket sirens in Sderot, Ibim and Nir Am in southern Israel.
An IDF spokesperson, following the Friday attack, announced that fighter jets and aircraft attacked a number of terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip in retaliation.
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The IDF’s retaliatory attack targeted a Hamas training facility, a station containing anti-aircraft launchers in development, a factory used to produce concrete for digging terrorist tunnels and storing weapons, and infrastructure for Hamas terror tunnels.
“For the second day in a row, Gaza is under Zionist attacks during Ramadan,” said a spokesperson for Hamas following the attack, The Jerusalem Post‘s Sister publication Maariv reported Saturday. “Gaza is fighting and will wake up to a new day and continue to fight for her liberation from the occupying people.”
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