By Anna Ahronheim
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
May 12, 2021
It’s been a year and a half since the last escalation between Israel and Hamas, Operation Black Belt, took place. And as expected, in that time neither side sat around to relax and watch Netflix. Instead, they increased their capabilities, on a daily basis, in order to inflict as much damage as they could in the opening salvo of the next round.
The work put in by both Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip — Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad — was clear for all to see in the skies above central and southern Israel on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.
Large barrages of over 130 long-range missiles were fired by Hamas at just after 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. towards central and southern Israel, sending thousands of Israeli citizens to their bomb shelters.