After issuing an ultimatum for Israel to withdraw from the Temple Mount and some neighborhood in Jerusalem, Hamas has just launched multiple rockets, including an anti-tank missile from the Gaza Strip into Southern Israel. One Israeli was injured in the attack and taken to a nearby hospital:
🚨 RED ALERT🚨
Sirens are sounding in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 10, 2021
🚨 A barrage of rockets is being fired toward southern Israel right now 🚨
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 10, 2021
תיעוד: האזקעות בכיכר ציון במרכז ירושלים@SuleimanMas1
(צילום: דיווחים בזמן אמת) pic.twitter.com/jVsEK99HG1— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) May 10, 2021
This is what that barrage of rockets looked like:
المـــقـــــ ـــاومة تطلق رشقات صاروخية تجاه مستوطنات الاحتلال ردا على جرائمه بحق القدس pic.twitter.com/3cOmDG8VF9
— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) May 10, 2021
I counted at least 8 being fired at once. They do that to try and overwhelm the Iron Dome system, though they’ve fired a lot more at once in the past.
I mentioned that one Israeli citizen was injured by the anti-tank missile…
As a result of the anti-tank missile fired from Gaza, an Israeli civilian in a nearby vehicle was lightly injured and evacuated to a hospital for further medical treatment.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 10, 2021
It was just posted on Twitter that residents of one Israeli town near Gaza have been told to go home, lock their doors for fear of terrorist infiltration:
BREAKING: Residents of a kibbutz in southern Israel, near Gaza, have been directed to go into their homes and lock their doors for fear of a terrorist infiltration. More to follow.
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) May 10, 2021
It’s getting pretty serious in Israel right now and I would fully expect the IDF to soon retaliate by bombing Gaza as they’ve done in previous years. But don’t expect them to completely level Gaza and fully take out Hamas like they should, because the international community will put so much pressure on them, taking the Palestinian side and blaming them for war crimes, that Israel will constrain themselves as we’ve seen in the past.
UPDATE: As predicted…
Israeli aircraft are carrying out airstrikes against Hamas terror targets in Gaza in response to the rockets fired at Jerusalem and southern Israeli cities over the past hour.
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) May 10, 2021