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By TOI Staff and Emanuel Fabian - August 6, 2022
Residents in southern Israel spent the night in bomb shelters as rocket fire from the Gaza Strip continued to target Israeli communities near the Palestinian enclave overnight Friday-Saturday.
Rocket sirens were heard intermittently across southern Israeli cities and towns into the wee hours, as the Israeli military continued to carry out airstrikes in the Strip targeting Palestinian Islamic Jihad weapons sites and launching positions.
Sirens were heard in Sderot, Kissufim, Nir Am, Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza, Nitzamin, and Kerem Shalom, all near the Palestinian enclave.
The Israel Defense Forces said air force jets struck a number of weapons-making sites run by terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including a facility that produces materials used in rockets launched into Israel and another site that develops mortar shells.
An unspecified number of PIJ rocket-launching positions were also struck, the military said. The army posted footage from a strike on the rocket facility, and a video from the hit on a PIJ launching position.
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