14 Cheshvan 5780
12 November 2019
The News on the Israeli Street and Today’s Blog
Continuous Updates: Missile Strikes On Israel
9:00 pm Tuesday:
We are now at the hour at which Islamic Jihad has promised will be an “extending of missile attack range.” Nothing has happened yet, but it most certainly will.
There has been a significant build-up of IDF forces along the border–tanks, artillery, and soldiers. IAF operations are proceeding in Gaza.
Numbers for the day so far:
235+ missiles have been fired into Israel. Now that the official count (190) has almost reached our previous count (200), adding the most recent barrages brings us to 235. Officially, 90% of the incoming missiles have been intercepted by the Iron Dome.
7 Islamic Jihad terrorists have been killed.
Approximately 50 Israelis have either been admitted to hospitals with wounds or treated by MADA at the scene of their wounding.
6:00 pm Tuesday:
Barrages from Gaza at 5:38 pm, 5:29 pm, 4:53 pm, 4:12 pm, 3:48 pm, and 3:05 pm primarily targeting the communities along the Gaza border.
There are unconfirmed reports that a group of IDF soldiers massed at the Gaza border east of Rafah were wounded when hit by mortar shells. If this is true, it marks the same strategy used by Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the 2015 war.
The lull before the storm? Islamic Jihad and Hamas are both declaring that they have not yet begun to respond. Interestingly, Be’ersheva and other areas have yet to be hit–will all of this change in the coming hours?
3:00 pm Tuesday:
There have been 7 more missile barrages in the last hour. The most recent was 11 minutes ago at Nahal Oz.
A large fire as a result of a missile explosion continues burning out of control in Sderot:
This fire is in the industrial section of Sderot.
If you can believe this, and why not, we now have various Israeli politicians on the “left” led by Avigdor Lieberman disgustingly trying to score political points in the midst of all the missile fire.
2:00 pm Tuesday:
The missile fire emanating from the Palestinian terrorists in Gaza continues unabated.
There have been 14 more barrages of missiles fired at southern Israel since our last update two and a half hours ago. We had our last barrage here in Ashdod at 1:11 pm.
When we write “barrages”, we are talking about simultaneous fire of 4-8 missiles at a time. So far, we have not seen 16 or even 32 missiles fired at one time though that is likely to come tonight.
As of this hour, approximately 200 missiles have been fired at southern Israel. We say “approximately” because the IDF seems to have stopped counting three hours ago–and, as we all know, it dramatically undercounts missiles during times of combat. A few were fired at targets in the central part of the country. As usual, the hardest hit areas are the communities along the Gaza border, namely Sderot, Nahal Oz, and Nirim.
Another attack on those communities is taking place at this moment.
11:30 am Tuesday:
PM Netanyahu’s press conference has been delayed until noon.
More than 125 missiles have been fired at Israel since 5:45 am.
In the last 30 minutes:
The IAF hit a motorcycle loaded with Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza. Two were killed and 5 were wounded.
An IAF missile destroyed the top floor of a residence in Jabalya–apparently belonging to a senior Islamic Jihad operative.
Another Islamic Jihad terrorist bites the dust?
11:00 am Tuesday:
PM Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Kochavi are scheduled to speak shortly.
Numerous barrages of missiles have been fired from Gaza in the last two hours. More homes have been directly hit (such as in Netivot) and shrapnel has been raining on cities in the south. Click here for an amazing video which shows a missile striking an intersection about 3 miles from our house here in Ashdod (scroll down to the video). Miraculously, no one was wounded or killed.
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As of 30 minutes ago at 10:30 am, MADA is reporting that 29 Israelis have received medical treatment from the missile fire. Of this 29, 13 were wounded by shrapnel and 15 were injured while running to a bomb shelter; an 8-year-old girl in Holon went into shock and had to be resuscitated.
The target we referred to in our first update this morning who was apparently eliminated in Damascus was a liaison between the Iranian Quds force and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
9:00 am Tuesday:
More than 75 missiles have been fired at Israel since 5:45 am.
We’ve been in our bomb shelter here in Ashdod several times in the last hour as missiles have exploded all around us and overhead. Here’s a photo of an intercept over the house at 8:31 am.:
At 8:31 am this morning over our house in Ashdod.
The top of a house in Sderot that was hit by a missile about two hours ago–the residents were in their bomb shelter and were physically unwounded:
Fortunately no one was where the missile exploded.
8:00 am Tuesday:
In the last 30 minutes, missiles targeted: Sderot, Yad Mordechai, Bat Yam, Holon, south Tel Aviv and Jaffa, Karmia, Ashkelon, Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Mazkeret Batya, Gan Yavne, Givat Brenner, Nahal Sorek, Nahal Oz, Beit Elazari, and Kissufim among other places.
There was a direct hit on a house in Sderot.
Schools canceled in Tel Aviv and supermarkets closed.
7:30 am Tuesday
Two Iron Dome intercepts over our house here in Ashdod a few minutes ago:
One picture says it all–these are the areas receiving incoming missile alarms at 7:04 pm:
7:00 am Tuesday
Incoming missile alarms each involving barrages of missiles:
6:04 am: Ashkelon and Zikim
6:18 am: Kfar Aza
6:29 am: Nir Am, Sderot
6:35 am: Ashkelon
6:51 am: Sderot, Erez, Nir Am (explosions heard here in Ashdod)
6:56 am: Karmia
7:00 am: Sderot, Nir Am
The IDF is currently attacking targets in Gaza City.
Unverified report: Abu Al Ata’s wife was also killed in the IAF attack on his house in Gaza.
Unverified report: Senior Palestinian terrorist Ziad Nahala assassinated in Damascus.
All schools have been canceled in southern Israel including those in Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Beersheva.
6:00 am Tuesday:
We have just emerged from our bomb shelter here in Ashdod after an Islamic Jihad missile attack on our neighborhood. There is no word of impacts or intercepts, but we heard at least 6 explosions.
The rest of southern Israel is under attack with missile strikes on Ashkelon and communities along the border.
These attacks follow Israel’s targeted assassination early this morning of the head of Islamic Jihad Abu Al Ata.
More incoming missile sirens are now sounding in the area. We are moving to our bomb shelter again.
We will have continuous updates every hour during the day.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.