Forces from the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Border Police worked overnight to arrest seven wanted terrorists throughout Judea and Samaria and in the Jordan Valley region
The five days of intensive warfare saw over 1,200 rockets fired towards Israel as the Israeli military responded by targeting Islamic Jihad militants, command centres, rocket launchers, and capabilities in the Palestinian enclave, read a report published in The Times of Israel.
Galili, a 64-year-old therapist and social worker was forced to evacuate her home in Kibbutz Nirim this week as Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
Anticipating a barrage of Palestinian rocket fire, which began on Wednesday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved the evacuation plan, called "Gust of Wind," in anticipation of retaliatory rocket fire from terrorist factions in Gaza.
Amid the escalation of violence in the region and the death of at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza and one Israeli, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fired rockets at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Friday, CNN reported.
The first Israeli civilian was killed by the rocket fire launched at civilian targets in the country by the Islamic Jihad since the IDF began "Operation Shield and Arrow" against the terrorist organization's leadership and bases in Gaza Tuesday morning. The victim was killed when a rocket hi
The Health Ministry in Gaza said a total of 28 people have been killed since the fighting erupted. Among the dead were at least nine Islamic Jihad militants, 10 civilians and nine others, including four whom Israel says were killed in failed rocket launches, whose affiliation remained uncert
As rockets continued to be fired at southern and central Israel, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ordered the security establishment to prepare "a series of additional operations" against Gaza and stressed that Israelis should brace for longer range Palestinian rocket fire.
The southern Gaza Strip neighbourhood of Khan Younis was the focus of the strike conducted early hours of Thursday, targeting a commander of a rocket unit, Al Jazeera reported quoting Israeli forces.