Is war in Gaza fast approaching? Strip may be evacuating

Israeli Defense Force (IDF) senior official warned that Israel was at the point of a full-scale military confrontation with Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the Hamasshole terror group launched hundreds of rockets overnight at civilian communities along the Gaza Strip. The IDF believes that the Strip may need to be evacuated to protect non-combatant families and prepare for battle.

The official spoke on condition on anonymity said, 'We have more capabilities in our arsenal. We are ready to continue attacking, attacking and attacking. Our strikes deeply affect Hamas, it would be better off returning to the understandings reached after Operation Protective Edge [in 2014]."

Over 150 rockets and mortar shells were launched at Israeli communities since Wednesday night and continued throughout the night into Thursday. A woman was seriously injured when a projectile hit a home in the Eshkol regional council.

According to IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, no less than seven people were injured in southern Israel by the Gaza rocket attacks. Israel responded by hitting over 140 Hamas targets overnight.

The IDF targeted training compounds, weapons manufacturing facilities and storage warehouses. The IAF [Israeli Air Force] targeted sites from which rockets were launched including a car the IDF said was being used by a cell of terrorists.

Hamas targeted civilian homes and anyone they could kill in Israel.

Only one Hamasshole was killed in the airstrike, but an unconfirmed report claimed he was the relative of a senior Hamas commander.

Hamas claimed a 23-year-old pregnant woman and her infant daughter were killed in an IDF strike, but it turned out to be a lie as a "journalist" posted a phony story and used a fake photo on 
Instagram detailing the "horrible atrocity".

The real irony is how the world expects Israel to be admonished for accidentally killing a civilian, but Hamas gets a free pass for actually targeting civilians and schools.

"We are nearing a confrontation in no small steps," an anonymous IDF senior officer said. "Hamas is making serious mistakes, and we may have to make it clear after four years that this path doesn't yield any results fo it and isn't worth it."

So far no additional units have been called up, but additional forces were deployed to the Gaza area. If war breaks out, the military will evacuate communities in southern Israel.

Most of Hamas' rockets did little more than till the soil. The Iron Dome defense system lets those rockets fall into those open areas and only targets those rockets projected to strike communities. They shot down 25 of those suckers.

Conricus said the system was operating as well as expected but that it isn't perfect. He added that the current round of violence "is definitely not over."

The anonymous official said of the current situation: "We are in the midst of a new round, the end of which I cannot see yet. We struc a range of targets, including tunnel shafts and many military compounds belonging to Hamas. What we wanted to destroy was done very well.

"Meanwhile, there are talks on calming the situation down and reaching an agreement. This morning, I understand, Hamas is distancing itself from an agreement, and nearing a conflict in which it will suffer a hard blow. Its two million hostages will be the ones suffering," he said, referring to those Palestinians who aren't directly involved in the fighting and merely hate Israel.

After the attacks ended, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman met with other senior IDF officers and security services in Tel Aviv to discuss the situation and talk about the next course of action.

Israel's security cabinet was due to hold a special session on Thursday afternoon to talk about the ongoing violence.

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