"In the last 5 hours, approximately 70 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip at Israel. The Iron Dome aerial defense system intercepted 11 launches, the majority of the rockets hit open areas," the IDF spokesperson tweeted.
8 August 2018, 16:29 GMT
The Israel Defense Forces reported later that its aircraft made an airstrike on a vehicle which, according to IDF, had been used by a "rocket launching squad."
A short while ago, IDF aircraft fired towards a vehicle used by a Gazan rocket launching squad to launch a rocket at Israeli territory pic.twitter.com/E7mLpaNB0d
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) August 8, 2018
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