Israeli Ground Troops Attack Targets In Gaza

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ground soldiers attacked Gaza early Friday morning local time following a barrage of 1,500 rockets that targeted airstrikes failed to curb.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously announced that IDF soldiers were massing at the nation’s border with Gaza in preparation for invasion. He promised that Israel would “would extract a very heavy price from Hamas” in response to repeated rocket attacks that have killed at least seven Israelis. In addition to the rockets that landed in Israel or were intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system, at least 350 rockets misfired and landed in Gaza, according to the IDF.