hits" on Syrian targets. Barak said today that the IDF is working to stop any Syrian fire crossing the border into Israel, "while making more wide-scale preparations for all developments". He continued: It's very difficult to estimate what will be in Syria in the future, and we need to be alert and ready here, like in other areas. We are determined to defend our land and our borders. We made that clear to the other side. Israel-Palestine. . Citing Palestinian sources, Hareetz reports that Hamas military wing chief in Rafah, Raed al-Atar, has also been killed in IDF strike. Israel-Palestine. Charlotte Alfred , a journalist working for Ma'an News, an independent Palestinian news organization, has sent me the following comment. Multiple airstrikes are ongoing across the Gaza Strip. Ahmad al-Jabari is Hamas' most senior military leader. This is the most serious assassination of a Palestinian figure in years. Qassam [the military wing of Hamas] are furious. Just hours earlier [Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh] was expressing defiance that Israel's assassination threats will amount to nothing. Rockets -- not much reported right now but they will come There are already reports of rocket attacks against Israel -- here are the last 3 updates from the IDF's own liveblog , though the last update was about an hour ago: 2:10 AM: In response to rocket fire from Gaza, the Israeli Air Force targeted a weapon storage facility in the central Gaza Strip, as well as two launching sites in the northern Gaza