The Israel Air Force struck over 80 targets in the Gaza Strip in under 30 minutes on Wednesday evening, the IDF Spokesperson said. Over 550 targets have been hit since the start of the Operation Protective Edge against Hamas rocket fire this week, the IDF said.
In recent air strikes, the IAF targeted dozens of Hamas infrastructure sites used by the organization's senior commanders. The strikes targeted infrastructure used by Ahmed Andur, a senior Hamas member in northern Gaza, who is responsible for rocket fire on southern Israel in recent months, as well as the failed attempt by Hamas naval commandos to land on Zikim beach and murder Israelis.
Andur also commanded a cell that carried out bombing and shooting attacks on IDF units, and spent six years in an Israeli prison in one term, and five years in a Palestinian prison in a second term. After being released, he took part in a shooting attack on a fuel truck on the Gaza border, in which one Israeli was killed and a second seriously injured.
During the Second Intifada, he assisted a Hamas engineer named Adnan Alul in Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He also took part in organizing a suicide bomb attack on the Erez Crossing in 2004, which killed four people, and a double suicide bombing at Ashdod port in 2004, which killed 11 Israelis.
Andur took part in a long line of additional attacks, including one on the army, which killed three soldiers, and a bombing attack on a tank in Dugit, killing four soldiers.