UPDATE: Day 3 updates here: Gaza on the brink, after rocket fire kills one, wounds two in Israeli town; security cabinet convenes
■ Some 370 rockets launched from Gaza
■ Bus hit, Israeli severely wounded
■ One civilian killed by Gaza rockets, Some 70 said injured
■ Iron Dome intercepts around 100 projectiles
■ Israel strikes over 100 targets in Strip
■ Palestinians say three killed
The Israeli army is reinforcing Armored Corps and infantry units near the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, its spokesperson said. The Israel Air Force struck over a hundred Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets on Monday overnight, including a munitions warehouse, weapons factory and a military compound and Hamas' Public Security offices, said the spokesperson.
Hamas' military wing spokesman said Monday that Be'er Sheva and Ashdod would be targeted next if "Israel persisted in its aggression." The Islamic Jihad echoed the statement, saying Gaza factions have the capacity to continue their offensive.
The fatality is reportedly a man from the West Bank Palestinian city of Hebron, not an Israeli citizen as initially suggested by local media. His identity is yet to be fully confirmed. He was the first casualty in Israel from this round of aggression with the Strip.
The victim was found by other civilians buried in the rubble an hour after police and firefighters had already left, in what neighbors described as a "terrible failure" to locate him.
Rescue operations at the building had identified a 60 year old woman, unconscious with blast wounds and multiple injuries, around 40 minutes after the house was hit, but had altogether missed the other casualties.
The other victims were spotted by a man who had come to take pictures of the damage one hour after the hit.
Israel came under a heavy barrage of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on Monday, a day after a flare-up in which an Israeli officer and seven Palestinians were killed.
An anti-tank missile launched from Gaza hit a bus in southern Israel, severely wounding a 19-year-old soldier.
The soldier was evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva along with the 25-year-old driver, who suffered from shock.
The projectiles fired from the Strip hit Israel in a number of locations, including in Sderot, where several people suffered light injuries from shrapnel, and Netivot, where a house took a direct hit. Israeli emergency services said a total of nine people sustained light injuries from shrapnel.
Late on Monday night, the Magen David Adom said overall they treated 53 injured Israelis, of whom two in critical conditions, one moderately injured, 23 injured lightly from glass shrapnel, blast injuries, smoke inhalation and from running to protected areas, and 27 people suffering from stress symptoms.
The figure referred to events prior to the deadly hit in Ashkelon and more rocket attacks from Gaza overnight and, with increased intensity, in the early morning on Tuesday.
The Israel Defense Forces said the Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted around 100 out of some 370 launches from Gaza. Most of the rockets exploded in open areas. Rocket sirens sounded in southern Israeli communities throughout the late afternoon and evening on Monday, including in Be'er Sheva and Ashkelon, and near the Dead Sea, and continued on Tuesday.
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east...e-palestinians-killed-bus-destroyed-1.6650643
