ISRAEL BRACES FOR VIOLENT NIGHT AFTER OVER 200 ROCKETS POUND JEWISH STATEIsrael is bracing for continued violence as it carried out three waves of retaliatory strikes after the country was pounded by close to 200 rockets on Tuesday morning following the predawn targeted killing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Leader Bahaa Abu Al-Ata the Gaza Strip.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Kochavi said that while the military was not interested in a conflict in the coastal enclave, the IDF was preparing for an escalation of violence and that it would return to a policy of targeted killings if necessary.
"We are not interested in an escalation but we are ready - on the ground, in the air and at sea,” Kochavi said.
The military said that all the airstrikes in the first wave targeted PIJ underground facilities used for storage and manufacturing of weapons and training camps. These sites were critical facilities for the group which invested large sums of money to construct.
https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Explosions-at-house-of-Islamic-Jihads-Abu-al-Ata-Palestinian-report-607579
