Rockets and Missile Fired at Israel, as IAF Pounds Hamas Targets

Stand for Israel  |  January 3, 2025

Fighting continues in Gaza as a missile was fired at an IAF helicopter and intercepted by the Iron Dome. And rockets continue to threaten Israeli communities along the Gaza border, reports The Times of Israel:

Rocket sirens sounded several times Friday in Israeli communities along the Gaza border, in the eighth straight day of incoming fire from the enclave, as the IDF said it launched airstrikes against some 40 staging grounds of terror operatives and Hamas command centers across the territory over the past day.

A siren in Be’eri midday Friday was triggered by a surface-to-air missile launched at an Israeli Air Force helicopter flying over Gaza, according to military sources.

The shoulder-launched missile, fired by a gunman in the Bureij area of central Gaza, did not come close to hitting the helicopter, and was successfully shot down by the Iron Dome air defense system, the sources said.