Hamas has missiles that are able to fly to tel Aviv airport, said on Wednesday authorized the state Department Marie Harf.
" Hamas has missiles that are possible to reach the airport Ben-Gurion. The accuracy of these missiles remains limited, " said Harf." As long as we define it, what features air defense have Hamas. We do not have confirmation that Hamas launched rockets With thermal imaging warhead during the current conflict, or that Hamas has missiles of that type, which, as We have seen, the plane was shot down Malaysia Airlines (Ukraine), " said Harf.
first American and the overwhelming majority of European airlines suspended flights to tel Aviv once launched from Gaza rocket exploded in the immediate vicinity of the city to the North from the international airport.
Israel in July began in the Palestinian enclave operation " Indestructible rock ", the aim of which is designated as a cessation of rocket fire and the undermining of military capabilities of Hamas. Actions tel Aviv to 17 July was reduced to remote attacks From the air and sea, raids special purpose. However, From the evening of Thursday, the Israeli army launched in the Gaza Strip, whose main task of the military called the destruction of tunnels dug by Palestinian militants under the mutual border.
in this operation two times was declared a truce. The Israelis said fifteen July, agreeing to accept the Egyptian peace initiative. It lasted six hours and was closed due to failure of the terrorists to stop the missile launch., the so-called humanitarian truce, July 17, and also ended prematurely.
the number killed in Gaza, according to a local data, more than 200 people and wounded more than a thousand.. With the Israeli side, too, there is killed, hundreds were injured.
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