Flag of Israel. Archival photoTEL AVIV, Aug 6The Israeli army expects that Operation Dawn in the Gaza Strip will last a week, RIA Novosti was told in the army press service.
"The army is preparing for the fact that the military operation will last a week", — so they answered the request of the agency.
The day before, the Israeli Army launched an operation against the Palestinian group «Islamic Jihad». The military strikes at targets in the Gaza Strip, a state of emergency has been introduced in the Israeli rear. Islamic Jihad has confirmed the death of one of its commanders, Taysir al-Jabari. Throughout the night, air raid signals sounded in the areas of Israel bordering Gaza. Prior to that, a tense situation had persisted in the south of the country for several days. On the evening of August 1, in the city of Jenin on the West Bank of the Jordan River, a Palestinian teenager was killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers. According to the Palestinian media, one of the leaders of Islamic Jihad, Bassam al-Saadi, was wounded and detained there. The representative of the military wing of the group, for its part, warned of readiness to respond with force to the aggression if it does not stop. Moscow called on the parties to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to restraint and return to the ceasefire.
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