TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza amid spate of balloon-borne arson attacks
by Staff and Aaron Boxerman
August 13, 2020

Israel attacked targets in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday morning in response to a spate of balloon-borne arson and explosive devices launched from the Strip into Israel in recent days. The Israel Defense Forces said that Israeli warplanes, combat helicopters and tanks hit a number of targets belonging to the Hamas terror group. “During the attack, military facilities of Hamas’s naval force, underground infrastructure and observation posts belonging to the Hamas terror group were attacked,” the IDF said in a statement. READ MORE