At least 200 Palestinian Islamist group targets were attacked on Tuesday. "This goes for long," he warns.
The gradual worsening of escalation between Israel and Hamas in recent weeks has led to open warfare, whose exact size is not yet possible to predict.
In response to continued rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into southern Lebanon, Israel launched early Tuesday the military operation 'Marco Protector', with the declared aim to deal a blow to the armed Hamas infrastructure and its Member and other radical Palestinian groups involved in the shooting at civilian towns in Israel. (Analysis: Middle East and the return of History)
Sources in Gaza reported that 23 Palestinians were killed and about 100 wounded in the first day of the Israeli air offensive.
Some of them, apparently, were civilians. Palestinian witnesses say the attack on the house of a leader of the armed wing of Hamas in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, some children have died. However, sources in the Palestinian Ministry of Information confirmed that the family received a telephone call from an Israeli intelligence officer, who warned people to leave the house, because the place was going to be bombarded by serving the missile industry the organization.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said: "Our aim is to ensure the security of Israeli citizens." "We attack the terrorists, while Hamas and other organizations launch missiles intentionally at Israeli civilians, hiding behind their own civilians."
Members of the armed wing of Hamas, Izz al Din al Qassam, warned that Israel "will regret their aggression" and promised "an earthquake or expected."
The general atmosphere is war. In the afternoon, the Israeli defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, estimated that armed groups in Gaza would open fire on Tel Aviv, the big city of the country, which was ordered to take appropriate measures. The city opened shelters, Civil Defense Command issued instructions on how to proceed in case of an alarm, and a few hours later it was all based on an accurate reading of the situation.
three impacts
Alarms sounded in Tel Aviv and several surrounding towns in the metropolitan area. Two Grad rockets fired from Gaza were intercepted in the air. A rocket landed on the balcony of a house, but did not explode.
And soon after, another piece in the complex mosaic, alarm bells also in the capital, Jerusalem. Hours after it was confirmed that the four missiles into the city, three had impacted.
In fact, much of the country was yesterday under general alert sirens and alarms sounding all day in the southern towns bordering Gaza and in large cities in that area as Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beer Sheba, and Ofakim Netivot. Then they added to the map, not only Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, but also Rehovot, Raanana, Kvar Saba, to Caesarea and Binyamina.
The northernmost point reached by a missile launched from Gaza on Tuesday, was the city of Hadera, 116 miles away from the Palestinian Gaza.
In the first 24 hours of the military operation, during which Israel attacked a lot of targets Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees, were launched from Gaza into Israel 154 missiles and various missiles, 117 of which hit ground and 29 were intercepted.
Military spokesman who published the information did not explain what happened to the remaining difference. "No other country is under a threat of this kind," Netanyahu said, "and no country would accept".
condemn violence
The European Union (EU) condemned the "indiscriminate" firing of rockets from Gaza into Israel and deplored the casualties caused by Israeli retaliation against the Islamist movement Hamas, so he urged an immediate ceasefire.
For its part, the U.S. government. UU. also condemned the firing of rockets into Israel from Gaza and called on the Israeli government "leaving open a channel for diplomacy to prevail" against the spiral of violence that has left several dead.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for "maximum restraint" on both parties and called to "prevent further civilian casualties and destabilization."
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