Another heavy barrage of rockets was fired from Gaza on Wednesday evening at about 7:30 p.m toward the Tel Aviv area and Be’er Sheva, with sirens heard in Bnei Brak, Holon, Sderot and Ashkelon.
There was a direct hit on a home in Netivot which is next to Yeshivas HaNegev and on the yeshivah itself. B’Chasdei Hashem, there were no injuries although the shrapnel damaged the yeshivah’s dining room.
The new barrage of rockets followed reports on Tuesday evening that Israel had received a ceasefire proposal from Egypt. In response to the resumption of rocket launches, Israel launched additional airstrikes in Gaza.
Red alert sirens were heard in Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Netivot and multiple nearby communities early Wednesday afternoon, the first rockets to be launched from Gaza since Israel launched Operation Shield and Arrow overnight Monday.
As the rocket barrage continued, sirens were heard in the Tel Aviv area, including Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Rishon L’Tzion, Bat Yam, Holon and Giv’atayim. Residents reported hearing explosions in the area. Rockets were intercepted over Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv.
According to the IDF spokesperson, as of 4 p.m., 270 rockets were fired into Israel, of which 65 fell within Gaza. The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted 62 of the rockets. Three rockets landed in urban areas and the rest landed in open areas.
The IDF struck 53 Islamic Jihad sites in the Gaza Strip.
Many children in the Tel Aviv area were still in school when the rocket barrage began and some schools instructed parents to pick up their children. A video on social media showed a father lying on top of his children on the sidewalk in Ramat Gan as a siren blared.
A house in Sderot suffered a direct hit but b’Chasdei Hashem, there were no injuries as the family had left the area, along with thousands of other residents of the Gaza border area who evacuated to other parts of Israel. The house suffered damage.
Over 40 rockets were launched at the Eshkol region in the Gaza border area and the roof of a kindergarten was hit by a rocket. Since all schools in the area are closed, there were no injuries, Baruch Hashem. The building suffered minor damage.
A 60-year-old woman in Ashdod was injured as she was running to a protected area. She was evacuated by MDA paramedics to Assuta Hospital in light condition. A spokesperson from Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon said that eight people were treated at the hospital, five of whom were injured while running to a protected area and three who were suffering from shock.
Rockets continue to fall as Israeli fighter jets simultaneously bomb rocket launchers and mortar positions throughout the Gaza Strip.
The strikes came shortly after the IDF on Wednesday morning stuck a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror cell in Gaza preparing to launch rockets at Israel.
According to Palestinian reports, one terrorist was killed and one was critically wounded in the strike.
Following the strike, the IDF spokesperson said: “Now we started airstrikes against underground launchers. We need to prepare for rocket fire in the next few hours.”
IDF publishes footage of the strikes against the PIJ rocket launching sites across Gaza pic.twitter.com/Jh4TQhUkFk
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) May 10, 2023
The IDF’s Home Front Command instructed residents of the Gaza border area to remain in bomb shelters in anticipation of retaliatory attacks. Schools in the area remain closed for the second day and thousands of residents evacuated to central Israel.
Israel has been on edge awaiting a response from Islamic Jihad, with the IDF closing many of the roads near the Gaza border in fear of the launch of anti-tank missiles.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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16 Responses
These donkeys need to be eliminated.
ה’ ירחם
I guess Israel will be censured at the UN for causing its enemies to waste valuable munitions on her destruction!
bless our country our men and Hashem, may we be protected during these moments of evil from other countries who find pleasure in Hating,
as the brisker ruv said “the medinah will only bring shfichas dumim (bloodshed) to yiden”,
since the world war 2 there was no place in the all globe that Jews has been killed like in this medinah day after day ,even in Iran itself where they are killing and hanging people, the Jews are not getting killed, they are not scared to go on the streets “ani matir es besarchem” hasem yrachem olainu it is time to say for Hashem OK we are doing tshoova , we don’t want any more from deep of oure hearth, and not interesting any more to have a medinah before Mashiach, please Hashem we trust you you know how to take care “without this Medinah”
The donkeys are eliminated on the cheshbon of bloodshed of our brothers and sisters
HJtE4UEh , do you really think at this point losing Israel would make the Jewish situation any better? What will it be if Jews seem hopeless with everything lost? Didnt the Holocaust happen when there was no medinah? What happened after the Churban bayis Sheini for 2000 years leading up to the holocaust (all without a medinah), how many Jews were continuously slaughtered and terrorized in all countries? How many Jews during the Holocaust and after who managed to escape or survive went straight to Israel for refuge?
lets bomb some more empty buildings!
lets bomb some more empty buildings! AND then some more. after the arabs fire another 2000 rockets lets make a cease fire.
HJtE4UEh,
I don’t believe the brisker Rav said that
Klal yisrael is supposed to have a certain amount of tzaar regardless before moshiach comes so we can cry out and moshiach comes just look at the בעל הטורים that ישמעאל will chepper בני ישראל they will cry out וישמע א-ל
Nothing out of Ned Price or Antony Blinken? Not a word from Susan Rice or Jake Sullivan?
HJtE4UEh, your שנאת ישראל is oozing out from within.
Shame on you! Yiden are suffering and all you can come up was that?
HJtE4UEh:
Right on. Please ignore the name-calling by idolaters and others who simply aren’t aware how deluded they are by this idol of Zionism.
rightwriter:
If not for Zionism, the Holocaust would either not have happened at all or, at the very minimum, would have been very, very different (far fewer Jewish lives lost).
Read Rav MB Weissmandl, Rav Avigdor Miller, and more.
As Rav Elchonon Wasserman noted, galus under Zionism (not just in their “State”, but especially so) is the worst galus.
Yaapchik:
Your knee-jerk defense of idolatry is showing.
Shame on you! Yidden are suffering from this idol and all you can come with is that?
may Hashem protect His Nation and destroy the enemies of Am Yisroel with magnificent destruction, אמן
Let’s come out in even stronger #’s to the כותל on the upcoming Most Holy Festivals of יום-ירושלים and שבועות and let’s strengthen our observances of these 2 most scared upcoming Festivals
All this time we was better then the Palestinian enjoy the shabbat and torah the pure and innocent life
one thousand rockets from Gaza is not worth one from the West bank