Barely a week after the media bent over backwards to vilify Israel for attempting to defend their borders, mortar fire rained down into Israel from Gaza and pummeled a Kindergarten.
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It has been described as the “heaviest mortar barrage in years” and has been ongoing throughout much of the day. Thankfully, the mortar that exploded near the Kindergarten happened prior to school, so no one was there.
In a video from the IDF, the damage is terrifying:
Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus is reporting from the Israeli kindergarten that was hit by several mortars earlier this morning. The kindergarten is located in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/vZBa0y0UJm
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) May 29, 2018
You can hear the children inside playing as the spokesman gives his assessment of the situation – pretty remarkable that even though their school was shelled by a mortar, they still had school. This is a clear indication of just how desensitized Israelis are to these sorts of ongoing attacks from inside Gaza.
Israel responded with force, launching air strikes on several militant locations.
Today, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations launched tens of mortars and rockets from the Gaza strip towards Israeli communities
Read about it here: https://t.co/FqIqs9umNi pic.twitter.com/RrwCTod4KC
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) May 29, 2018
The Hamas terror organization, who’s responsible for this attempt to breach the naval blockade, is trying to carry out a propaganda operation whilst using its people
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) May 29, 2018
This is a severe, dangerous, and orchestrated act of terror, aimed against civilians and children. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is ideologically oriented and funded by Iran. In today's launches, the terror organization used Iran-made munition
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) May 29, 2018
Faithwire was recently in Israel to cover the opening ceremony of the U.S. Embassy relocation to Jerusalem, a move President Donald Trump completed after a long string of U.S. Presidents before him promised yet failed to deliver on. Check out the coverage, including from the Gaza border during the largest protests: