Islamists have continue to fire rockets into Israel as of tonight and are preparing more for tomorrow. So far 160 rockets and mortars have landed in Israel since Saturday and 40 people have been injured. The IDF has since leveled another airstrike on Gaza as of late Monday night targeting their weapons and launching sites.
Now it seems Netanyahu is trying to win International support for a military incursion into Gaza to defend his nation from these terrorists.
TIMES OF ISRAEL – Israel Air Force jets fired on rocket launching sites and a weapons factory in the Gaza Strip late Monday night, the IDF Spokesman’s Office announced.
The airstrikes came after rocket fire from Gaza continued to pummel Israel’s south earlier Monday night, as Israeli leaders hinted that a ground operation into Gaza may be in the offing.
Meanwhile, terror leaders in Gaza met to decide how to go forward against Israel after a third day of attacks.
A Gaza spokesperson said the continued firing of rockets would depend on whether Israel stopped hitting targets in the Gaza Strip, AFP reported. The statement seemed to hint at the opening for a possible ceasefire.
Hours earlier, another Hamas spokesman had dismissed talk that a ceasefire was in the works.
The group issued a statement blaming Israel for the current round of fighting and reserving “the Palestinian nation’s right to defend itself.”
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Meanwhile, Netanyahu started taking steps to shore up international support for a possible military ground operation into Gaza that would aim to quell the ongoing rocket fire from the strip.
“The world must understand that Israel has the right and obligation to defend its citizens,” he told some 50 ambassadors in Ashkelon. “We will not sit idly in front of recurrent attacks that occur almost daily, against our citizens and our children. More than one million citizens have to live in a reality where within 15 or 30 seconds they need to find shelter against terrorists who shoot at civilians, while the terrorists themselves hide behind civilians. That’s a double war crime.
“None of your governments would accept such a situation,” he said. We do not accept such a situation, and I, as prime minister of Israel, am not prepared to accept this situation, and we will act to stop it.”