(Herzliya, Israel) — Multiple barrages of rockets are being fired at Israel at this hour after Islamic Jihad commander was killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli reporter Eylon Levy is reporting that “the IDF and Shin Bet attacked overnight a building with PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) commander Baha Abu Al Ata.” He adds that Al Ata was “a ticking bomb,” according to IDF, and peparing to “commit immediate terror attacks in various ways.”

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Please pray for the protection of innocent civilians and for calm to be quickly restored on both sides of the border.

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