A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces emphasizes again that residents of northern Gaza should heed the warning to evacuate to the southern part of the Strip, with Israel set to begin “significant military operations.”
“The important thing here to focus on is that we will commence significant military operations only once we see that civilians have left the area,” Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus tells CNN.
“It’s really important that people in Gaza know we’ve been very, very generous with the time. We have given ample warning, more than 25 hours… I cannot stress more than enough to say now is the time for Gazans to leave,” he says.
The Israel Defense Forces says an incoming rocket alarm sounding in the northern community of Sde Eliezer was due to an Iron Dome missile being fired at a “suspicious target.”
The IDF says further details are under investigation.
Rocket sirens sound in Galilee town, after alert-free night across Israel
Rocket alarms sound in the Galilee town of Sde Eliezer in the north, sending residents to bomb shelters in the early morning.
The siren, the first in Israel in many hours, comes amid widespread fear that the Hezbollah terror group could join the fighting, and a day after mortars were fired from Lebanon and rockets were launched from Syria.
Top Iranian diplomat meets with Hamas head Haniyeh in Qatar
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has met in Doha with Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, according to Iran’s state-run media.
A short video shows the two embracing as Amirabdollahian exits a car. No details about the meeting are released.
Iran has denied helping plan or knowing ahead of time about Hamas’s onslaught into southern Israel a week ago, in which the terror group slaughtered some 1,300 Israelis, most of them civilians. It has cheered the massacre as a victory.
Amirabdollahian is in Doha after visiting Lebanon, Syria and Iraq in recent days. He met in Beirut last week with Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah.
According to an Axios report Saturday, Amirabdollahian has warned Israel through the UN that Iran will intervene if Israel does not call off its looming ground incursion into Gaza.
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