On the morning of Thursday. On August 9, the IDF Air Force attacked a group of militants who launched missiles in the direction of Israeli territory from the southern sector of the Gaza Strip.

From Wednesday evening until Thursday morning, August 8-9, at least 80 rockets were fired from Gaza on Israeli territory, the IDF press service (according to unofficial estimates, about 100).

The missile defense system "Iron Dome" reacted to 25 launches, intercepting 14 missiles, military reports. It is noted that most of the missiles fell on undeveloped terrain.

Several missiles hit the houses - in Sderot and at the local council of Hof Ashkelon. The damage is caused.

Three people were injured in Israeli territory. The foreign worker was seriously injured in the Eschkol region. Two men were injured of medium gravity and lungs as a result of a rocket hit into a house in Sderot. Approximately ten citizens needed medical help to get out of a state of nervous shock. Two pregnant women in Sderot because of the shock experienced premature labor.

The Air Force of the Israeli Defense Forces attacked more than 140 sites of the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks on Israeli territory. The attacks were carried out at the headquarters of Hamas in Jabaliya, the training bases of militants (including naval bases), workshops for the production of weapons and ammunition, weapons depots, tunnel builders' bases, on the underground infrastructures and other objects of the terrorist infrastructure, as well as groups of militants, carrying out rocket attacks.

According to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, controlled by Hamas, as a result of attacks by the IDF, three people were killed in the sector, another 12 were injured.

In connection with the shelling on August 9, the work of children's camps in areas where there is a threat of missiles.

Temporarily stopped the movement of trains on the Ashkelon-Sderot section.

On Thursday morning, August 9, the Administration of the rear issued new orders concerning the rules of behavior of residents in the bordering regions of Gazay.

According to the instructions of the Administration of the rear, the work of all summer camps for children, as well as studies and examinations at universities. Abolished classes in the college "Sapir".

Agricultural work is forbidden. Turnout for workplaces is allowed only if it is possible to get to the protected space in 45 seconds.

It is allowed to conduct activities in an enclosed space, where no more than 300 people are present.

In the Department of Logistics, they emphasize that it is only about settlements located at a distance of no more than seven kilometers from the border with Gaza.. co. il.