TEL AVIV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 17th January, 2020) The Israeli air force stroke facilities of the Hamas Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip after several explosive balloons had been launched from the Palestinian enclave, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
"Terrorists in #Gaza launched explosive balloons at Israeli homes throughout the day. In response, an IDF attack helicopter just struck underground #Hamas infrastructure. We won't let #Hamas terrorize Israeli civilians," the IDF wrote on its Twitter page on late Thursday.
Further details of the incident remain unknown.
Hamas, a Palestinian Sunni militant organization in control of the Gaza Strip, has been locked in a protracted on-and-off conflict with Israel, which still refuses to recognize Palestine as an independent political and diplomatic entity. Israel holds Hamas responsible for any attack coming from the Gaza Strip.
