The number of Palestinian martyrs as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip rose for the second day in a row to 15, while warning sirens sounded in Ashkelon and the Israeli army ordered the Israelis to stay in the fortified rooms as a result of the renewed firing of rockets towards Israeli cities and towns.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that the number of martyrs reached 15, including a 5-year-old girl and a 23-year-old woman, while about 125 were injured.
Yesterday, the occupation army announced - in a statement - the start of a military operation in the Gaza Strip under the name "The Truthful Dawn", targeting positions and leading figures affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement in the Strip.
The occupation army called the operation "Al-Fajr Al-Sadiq", and justified its choice as "to confirm our focus on the jihad movement, which takes the black color as a slogan," he said.
Israel has threatened to expand its operations in Gaza if the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) intervenes and supports Islamic Jihad.
For its part, Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad announced the launch of the "Unity of Squares" operation, which began yesterday evening, Friday, in response to the aggression.
After hours of calm this morning, the Israeli occupation warplanes intensified their bombardment on the Gaza Strip, completely destroying two homes, and targeting a number of sites in different areas of the Strip, including one in the Shejaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and another in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes targeted two military sites belonging to Saraya al-Quds, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, the first south of Deir al-Balah, and the other west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said that helicopter gunships and soldiers from the Magellan unit bombed 4 military sites of the Islamic Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli warplanes also fired a number of missiles towards a house in the Sheikh Ajlin neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Al-Jazeera correspondent stated that an Israeli plane bombed a 5-storey apartment building west of Gaza City. The reporter also reported that Israeli planes destroyed a house in Beit Hanoun, in the fourth operation targeting residential buildings in Gaza.
The reporter also mentioned that the occupation warplanes bombed with 3 missiles a house east of the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
The fighters also targeted a watch tower used by Palestinian factions near the border strip with Israel in the central Gaza Strip.
The occupation army also announced that its warplanes attacked additional sites belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement this morning in the Gaza Strip.
The army added - earlier - that it launched 30 raids on more than 40 targets belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement, and fired 55 missiles and shells during the first day of the operation.
He stated that among the targets hit by the raids were: 5 rocket launchers, 6 workshops for the production of weapons, 2 warehouses for storing rockets, and one warehouse for storing mortars, in addition to 6 monitoring sites belonging to the Jihad movement.
Jihad movement responds
On the other hand, Al-Quds Brigades (the military wing of the Jihad Movement) announced the implementation of a joint operation with the National Resistance Brigades, the Mujahideen Brigades, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (the military wing of the Fatah movement).
Al-Quds Brigades said that the joint operation targeted the settlements of Tivot, Sderot, Kissufim, Al-Ain Al-Thirdeh and Sufa with rocket-propelled grenades.
An Israeli army statement also stated that Islamic Jihad fired about 160 rockets towards Israel, about 130 of which crossed the border into Israel, while Iron Dome intercepted 60 shells and missiles, and the rest of the shells landed in open areas or in areas that do not need to be intercepted, according to what was stated. in the statement.
And Al-Quds Brigades said - earlier - that it bombed Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, Ashdod, Beersheba, Ashkelon, Netivot and Sderot with 60 missiles, and announced the targeting of Israeli vehicles at a military site in Fajjah on the Gaza border.
Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that estimates indicate that more than 200 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel since yesterday.
The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that a missile fell on a factory in the Eshkol region, and that a fire broke out in the place.
The director of Al Jazeera's office in Jerusalem, Walid Al-Omari, said that the information available from the official authorities indicates that 40 Israelis were treated during the past hours, but most of them were injured either as a result of the stampede while running to the shelters or because of terror.
The Magen David Adom (an official Israeli ambulance) confirmed that 4 Israelis were injured while running towards shelters after sirens sounded, after rockets were fired from Gaza.
This authority said - in a statement carried by the official Israeli channel Kan - that 5 people were injured, 4 of whom were lightly injured, while running towards shelters in the cities of Ashdod and Sderot (south), while a fifth was in a state of panic.
In a related context, part of a missile fired by the Iron Dome anti-missile system landed near the emergency department of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon (south), according to the same source.
On the other hand, the Israeli army said that it is verifying the infiltration of Palestinians into the settlement of Eliezer in the West Bank, and called on the residents to stay in their homes.