CBN – Rocket sirens sounding throughout southern and central Israel are sending Israeli civilians to their bomb shelters Tuesday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered all residents throughout Israel to stay indoors and brace for a heavy shower of rockets from terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
The military says Gaza terrorists have fired at least 50 rockets at Israel since the early morning hours. The rockets are in retaliation for the IDF assassinating senior Islamic Jihad terrorist Baha Abu Al-Ata in a precision airstrike in Gaza early Tuesday morning. Israeli media reports at least one other person was killed and two others were wounded in the attack.
Syrian sources also report that an Israeli airstrike targeted Islamic Jihad senior leader Akram Ajuri at his home in Damascus. Reports say the leader survived the airstrike. The attack in Damascus came just minutes after the airstrike that killed Al-Ata in Gaza. According to Gaza news sources, Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al Nakhaleh vowed to retaliate. “We are going to war .. Netanyahu crossed all the red lines by the assassination of Abu al-Ata .. We will respond strongly,” al Nakhaleh reportedly said. READ MORE
