The IDF announced that the strike on Wednesday was merely the prelude to a major military operation in the coming days - "Operation pillar of cloud." The radical Islamic Hamas demanded retribution for the death of their military chiefs.
ROCKETS TO ISRAEL
Before the air raids on Wednesday extremist fighters from Gaza had fired rockets for days on southern Israel. Alone on Wednesday night beat over 65 bullets into the region. In the desert town of Beersheba hit a rocket a shopping center and caused severe damage. At least three people were killed.
The Iron Dome missile defense system have intercepted 25 floors from the Gaza Strip, told the Israeli forces. In the south of the country of the state of emergency declared. On Thursday around schools should be closed.
In a speech Netanyahu said that Israel would not tolerate attacks from Gaza longer. "Should it be necessary, the armed forces are prepared to extend the operation," said the Prime Minister. "We will continue to do everything possible to protect our citizens."
The air strikes in the Gaza Strip continued well into the early hours of Thursday. An army spokeswoman said about 100 targets had been attacked since midnight.
"Israel has long held back and endure the provocations by Hamas, but a million Israelis, 15 percent of the population, are under constant attack," said Israel's ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman. The diplomat to BILD.de: "We can not simply accept Sun You have been warned so long, but Hamas ignored this. Now it's time to act. "
The Palestinian news agency Safa reported since the beginning of the military operation on Wednesday were eleven Palestinians were killed and more than 100 injured. According to media reports from Israel threw leaflets over the Gaza Strip, calling the civilians to stay away for their own protection of stockpiles.
Hadas-Handelsman to BILD.de: "At the moment I see no immediate danger, and that the missiles hit Tel Aviv or Jerusalem could, but 45 km range are enough to put a country in fear."
U.S. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi. It was Obama expresses support for Israel's right to self-defense, said the White House. He had the government in Jerusalem but also asked to avoid civilian casualties in military operations.
With a targeted air strike on Wednesday, the IDF had killed Hamas military chief Dschabari. For more than 50 attacks on camps and launch pads for rockets and two training camps Islamic militants, killing at least ten Palestinians were killed, including two children. The ruling Hamas has declared a state of emergency in the Gaza Strip.
Thousands gathered outside the hospital, was taken to the Dschabaris corpse. They demanded retaliation for the deadly attack and chanted slogans such as: ". Today we want to take night Tel Aviv"
WHO WAS DSCHABARI?
Dschabari alias Abu Mohammed is the most senior Hamas official, Israel has deliberately killed since the invasion of the Gaza Strip (Operation Cast Lead) four years ago. His name was high on the list of security agencies in Israel, which accuse him of a series of attacks. He also was involved in the kidnapping of the soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006, which entered into in October 2011 again.
"I would call him as the number 1 terrorist in Gaza call," said the Israeli military spokesman Yoav Mordechai. "There is blood on his hands."
Dschabari had previously survived four strokes. Born in 1960, he originally belonged to the moderate Fatah, the party of the current Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. After 13 years of imprisonment in Israeli jails are Dschabari but closed to Hamas and went there in 2006 on the leader of the military wing. As such, he commanded the bloody civil war against Fatah forces in the Gaza Strip in 2007.
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