Israeli airstrikes kill 10 in Gaza including senior militant commander
Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday, killing at least 10 people, including a senior militant, and wounding dozens, according to Palestinian officials.
Israel said it was targeting the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to an “imminent threat” following the arrest of another senior militant in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.
Palestinian militants launched a barrage of rockets hours later as air raid sirens wailed in central and southern Israe. Islamic Jihad claimed to have fired 100 rockets.
Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers have fought four wars and several smaller battles over the last 15 years at a staggering cost to the territory's 2 million Palestinian residents.
A blast was heard in Gaza City, where smoke poured out of the seventh floor of a tall building on Friday afternoon. Video released by the military showed strikes blowing up three guard towers with suspected militants in them.
In a nationally televised speech Friday night, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said his country had launched the attacks based on “concrete threats.”
“This government has a zero tolerance policy for any attempted attacks - of any kind - from Gaza towards Israeli territory,” Lapid said. "Israel will not sit idly by when there are those who are trying to harm its civilians."
He also added that “Israel isn’t interested in a broader conflict in Gaza, but will not shy away from one either.”
"We will stand strong against the enemy, together," Prime Minister Lapid said in his televised address.
"I urge everyone to follow the instructions in the coming days. I trust the Israeli public and am sure that they will give a broad support to our security system. Whatever it takes, we will remove the threats from
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