Rockets and interceptions over the skies of Tel Aviv

Shortly after 17:00, the last salvo in the center - was an interception. Direct hit being checked on a building in Holon, apparently it came in fragments, and no casualties were reported.

Home Front Command ordered to open shelters in Haifa.

MDA teams are treating a number of trauma victims. Meanwhile, six hits were recorded in the western Negev communities. No casualties and no damage. 3 further falls were recorded in the western Negev city. Apparently it it a home, but no casualties.

About 70 rockets were fired from the morning hours at the southern communities. Iron Dome has made 17 interceptions all over the country.

The al - Quds, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing rockets at Gush Dan. Two rockets were intercepted and another rocket landed in an open area, without casualties and without damage.

A video from Pillar of Defense operation has circulated on the social network, which shows a rocket landed inside a military base and caused injuries. Following the release, IDF Spokesperson wishes to clarify that the reports about injury to dozens of soldiers at a military base are incorrect.

At around 14:20 the alarm was activated in the Sharon region, a short time later, two rockets exploded at Carmel Coast Regional Council and in Zichron Yaakov. The rocket reached the furthest to date in Israel. This type of rocket R-160, seemingly self-production named for assassinated Hamas leader Abdel - Aziz Rantisi.

Those who took charge of the launch are organization Izz al - Din al - Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. There have stated that they want to target to get these launches to Haifa. Shortly after the IDF attacked the area from which the rockets were launched, no casualties were reported.

The rocket-type M-302 is capable of reaching a distance of about 200 kilometers and contains 120 kg of explosives. Just to illustrate the amount of explosives, rockets fired at Gush Dan contain nine kilograms of explosives only.

Significant smuggling attempt was when the Israeli navy prevented the transfer of long-range rockets of type 302-M made in Syria from Iran to Gaza via Sudan on the ship KLOS-C Adar II, four months ago. However, a considerable amount of rockets M302 however did reach Gaza.

While Hamas announced that they had fired a rocket-type R-160 at Haifa, but apparently it is the same rocket, with only a name change, often sent without a warhead, and the main goal to prove that they can reach the Haifa area.

The first rocket at Tel Aviv, in the afternoon, was fired by Islamic Jihad. It claims that this type rocket "Burak 75", which was not known until now. Apparently this self-produced rocket equivalent to long-range rocket capabilities of Hamas.

IDF attacked this afternoon the home of a terrorist operative. Unknown injuries.

Gaza media now reporting 35 dead and over 300 injured in the operation "Protective Edge" of the IDF in Gaza. Among those killed in the Gaza Strip last hours include three children aged 15, 12 and two years. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Dr. Ashraf el Kader said that 32 people were killed by the IDF in Gaza today - he added that there are 92 wounded.

Part of the "Protective Edge" IDF attacked from the morning hours some 130 terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip. Since the beginning of the operation, the IDF attacked over 550 terrorist targets. The targets 31 tunnels in 60 launchers buried, centers of terrorist activity and a storing means - Fighting. In addition, the IDF attacked 12 operational networks of senior members of the terrorist organization Hamas, which served command and control infrastructure of the organization.

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