IDF Bombs Hamas in Response to Rocket

Stand for Israel | March 25, 2019

PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-GAZA-UNREST — Fire and smoke billow above buildings in Gaza City during reported Israeli strikes on March 25, 2019. - Israel's military launched strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip today, the army and witnesses said, hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave hit a house and wounded seven Israelis. (Photo by Mahmud Hams / AFP) (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

Hours after terrorists launched a rocket into central Israel that destroyed a family home and left seven wounded, the IDF has responded by striking Hamas targets in Gaza. The Times of Israel’s Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon report that the Israeli military has struck terrorist sites in the Hamas-ruled enclave, including the office of the terrorist group’s leader:

The Israeli military began bombing targets throughout the Gaza Strip on Monday evening, including the empty office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, some 12 hours after a rocket fired from the coastal enclave slammed into a home in central Israel, injuring seven people.

“At this time, the Israel Defense Forces has started to attack terror targets belonging to the Hamas terror group throughout the Gaza Strip,” the army said in a statement shortly after 5:30 p.m.

Approximately three hours into its bombing campaign, a mortar shell was fired from the Gaza Strip toward the nearby Eshkol region, triggering air raid sirens, the IDF said…