The IAF bombed 65 Hamas and Islamic Jihad facilities across the Gaza Strip in two rounds of air raids (on Tuesday afternoon and predawn Wednesday) amid the largest exchange between Israel and Gazan militant groups since the 2014 war. Over the course of 22 hours, from 7 a.m. Tuesday to 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, sirens were triggered at least 166 times in Israeli communities by mortar fire, rockets or, in some cases, heavy machine gun fire. The Palestinians kept launching rockets for several hours after the IDF stopped its strikes in Gaza. As of now, the military had yet to release a final tally for the number of projectiles fired at Israel from Gaza, but it is likely 100-150. From the end of the 2014 Gaza war until yesterday approximately 80 projectiles were fired from Gaza into Israel. Dozens of the incoming mortar shells and rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Others landed in open fields in south-west Israel. A small number landed inside Israeli communities, including a mortar round that directly hit a home in the Eshkol region and a shell that exploded in the yard of a kindergarten shortly before children arrived. Another rocket also struck a sports center in the town of Netivot. Several people in Israel were injured by the mortar attacks, 3 of them soldiers. One of the soldiers was moderately hurt, requiring surgery. No casulties were reported in Gaza. A reported Egyptian-brokered informal ceasefire between the Palestinian groups and Israel appeared to be holding on since Wednesday morning. Photos: Islamic Jihad members in Gaza, Rockets fired from Gaza at Israel during last night and IAF strike in Gaza yesterday
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