People living within 40 km of the Gaza Strip will be granted free entry into the country's national parks and gardens, including the night parking lots, starting from Thursday.
Ishai Trabelsi has lived under the shadow of Gaza terrorism his whole life - first in Gush Katif and later, after the evacuation, close to the border in the town of Sderot.
“Our unit is working extremely well, though nothing is ever 100%, but there is no gap and no technical failure,” the commander said.
As I began to drive back towards a hill that overlooks the border area I could see streaks of white smoke rising from Gaza. These are the telltale signs of rockets.
Palestinian rockets do not come out of the blue. Unlike Common Blue Butterflies, they should not be treated as one of nature’s wonders but as acts of war.
Cohen was in Sderot on Wednesday to rally support and show solidarity with local residents who have been targeted by dozens of Hamas rockets.
The IDF said that its rocket defense unit quickly noted and dealt with the technical issue and restored full effectiveness.
The assessment in the Gaza Strip is that neither Hamas nor PIJ is keen at this stage on entering into a major round of fighting with Israel.
The IDF did not turn the other cheek after Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired over 100 rockets at Israel, including Ashkelon and Sderot, but the response was relatively meek.
Despite the low number of casualties on the Gaza side, the IDF denied that Israel had avoided targeting Hamas sites with personnel who were present.
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