Morning is soon to reach Gaza/Israel.
It doesn’t seem Hamas hasn’t launched as many rockets as previous night, but better analysis by tomorrow. There is RUMINT that Hamas is reinforcing the border region in anticipation of some sort of ground action. There is also some RUMINT that Hamas has called for a cease fire within the last hour. No confirmation that i can see yet. Apparently part of this ‘cease fire’ is trying to claim that israel has agreed to one as well. Israeli sources repudiate that claim so far.
IDF is confirmed to be sending reinforcements south to the border area tonight. IAF ops/bombing continues - probably suppressing hamas rocket attacks. Some Israeli pundants note the current activity is similar to the build up to the 2014 conflict.
My guess is that Israel has hamas dialed in pretty well and is less concerned with collateral damage knowing that the US will back them (unlike 0bama). Thus able to strike targets they would have avoided in the past.
Morning Gaza recap.
IDF groundunits (?) continue to fire on targets in Gaza.
Israel reports over 180 rockets/mortars were fired into Israel overnight. None of these munitions caused any causalities. Israel responded with air strikes that hit 65 Hamas related targets. Hamas called for cease fire that Israel has not agreed to.
My suspicions continue to be that Hamas was targeted VERY efficiently and Israel had no qualms about potential collateral damage. Plus there isn’t support from the 0bama and other arab states for the ‘cause’. Otherwise Hamas wouldn’t have called for a cease fire so quickly.
Currently expect some more rockets/mortars to pop off again followed by more heavy airstrikes.