Israel launched four waves of air strikes on Gaza in less than a day, Israel's military said on Monday.
Israel's military has dropped 2,000 unspecified weapons and more than 1,000 tons of bombs on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip west of Israel since Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday, as the violence enters its third day.'In total, since the beginning of the war, Air Force aircraft have dropped about 2,000 weapons and more than 1,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza,' IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said at 8:30 a.m. local time.
Israel had carried out four waves of air strikes on the Gaza strip in the previous 20 hours, Hagari said, with up to 60 fighter jets involved in each attack wave.The first wave involved dropping 'hundreds of tons of munitions' on the city of Beit Hanoun, on the north-eastern edge of the Gaza Strip close to the Erez checkpoint, the Israeli military said.
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