Tonight, a rocket hit the city of Ashdod—see the damage for yourself.IDF

Put yourself in this father's shoes.

You're driving with your newborn baby. Suddenly, you find yourself under rocket fire.

As rockets explode, your only thought is: keep your baby safe.

The IDF will continue to fight against Hamas to protect Israeli civilians.
After providing advance warning to civilians & time to evacuate, IDF fighter jets struck a multi-story building containing Hamas military intelligence assets.

The building contained civilian media offices, which Hamas hides behind and deliberately uses as human shields.

Barrages of rockets are being fired non-stop from Gaza into southern Israel.

Tonight, a rocket hit the city of Ashdod—see the damage for yourself.

This won't go unanswered.
We are defending the citizens of Israel… and we will do everything to protect them."

—IDF Chief of the General Staff LTG Aviv Kohavi during his visit to an Iron Dome Aerial Defense System battery in southern Israel
The target: The Hamas 'Metro' tunnel system in Gaza.

The operation: 160 aircraft, tanks, artillery and infantry units along the border.

We struck 150 targets and damaged many kilometers of the Hamas 'Metro' network.

These are the faces of some of the top Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and terrorists. They were responsible for the rocket attacks against Israel in the last 72 hours. They will never plan another terror attack again.

Hamas is using children as human shields. Hamas has been using a school—in close proximity to civilian buildings including a hospital—to hide a terror tunnel. We neutralized the terror tunnel so that Hamas can no longer hide behind innocent children.

Hamas announced that it will fire rockets at Tel Aviv at midnight. The threat to target a city—to terrorize a population—is itself a violation of international law. If Hamas carries out its threat, it will be violating international law again by targeting civilians.