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Bomb shelters open in Tel Aviv amid threat of strikes from Gaza Strip

08 July 2014 18:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Israel’s Logistics Corps has ordered to open the bomb shelters in Tel Aviv amid a threat of missile strikes from the Gaza Strip. According to an Israeli military source, “there is no doubt Hamas will attempt to attack Tel Aviv with missiles”.

It has added that Hamas is seeking escalation of the conflict and is able to launch missiles over a distance “of 40 km and even 80 km from the Gaza Strip”.

Earlier, Israel has corrected the routes of the inbound and outbound flights at the Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv due to a missile threat from the Gaza Strip. Late on Monday, ahead of the start of the military raid in the Gaza Strip, the Logistics Corps ordered to open and prepare bomb shelters in major cities — Ashdod, Ashkelon and Beersheba in the south of Israel.