By Elad Benari
IAF aircraft were able to foil a rocket attack on Israel’s southern communities late Thursday night, the IDF Spokesman reported in a statement.
According to the statement, the aircraft hit a terrorist cell in northern Gaza, whose members were just about to launch a rocket into Israeli territory.
The shooting was thwarted, the statement noted.
The IAF attack comes after earlier on Thursday evening, a Qassam rocket launched by terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza exploded in an open area next to one of the communities in the Sha'ar Hanegev region. No physical injuries or damages were reported.
Last weekend, a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza brought about several IDF retaliations. IAF aircraft attacked a rocket production site, a terrorist base and a weapons storehouse in Gaza on Saturday night, after terrorists fired at least six rockets at southern Israel on Friday and Saturday.
Gaza terrorists also fired an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) anti-tank missile at IDF soldiers patrolling near the southern border last Friday evening. None of the Israeli soldiers were wounded in the attack, and IDF forces responded with tank fire.
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UN Security Council Condemns Anti-Israel Terror Wave
Source: Arutz Sheva
By Elad Benari
For the first time in seven years, the UN Security Council has condemned terror attacks against Israeli citizens.
According to a report on Channel 10 News, the Security Council condemned on Thursday the terror attack on the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India, as well as the attempted attack on the embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The attack in New Delhi seriously wounded Tal Yehoshua-Koren, the wife of the Defense Ministry’s attaché to India.
The Council members strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi, the report said, and reiterated that terrorism, in all its forms, is one of the greatest threats to peace and security and that any act of terrorism is a crime that cannot be justified. The statement also condemned the “violence against diplomatic and consular representatives.”
Channel 10 reported that the Council also stressed the need to prosecute the perpetrators, organizers, sponsors and supporters of acts of terrorism, and called on all nations, under their commitment to international law and to relevant resolutions of the Security Council, to cooperate with the Israeli authorities on the subject.
The condemnation was welcomed by Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, who just last week lodged a complaint with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over the terror campaign which Israel said Iran was behind.
