The IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, in response to the detonation of an explosive device on the border fence which left four Israeli soldiers wounded, hit “high-quality targets” serving the core of Hamas’s military force.

One of these targets was a tunnel that hadn’t infiltrated Israeli territory yet, but the IDF had planned to attack and destroy if and when it did cross the border.

This set of targets was aimed at dealing Hamas an unusually severe military blow, making it clear that the IDF would no longer allow the organization to use civil protests for military purposes and for carrying out terror attacks. The damage and destruction sustained by Hamas’s military force were likely the reason the organization fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets and even announced it had done so.

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