Home Front Command: Studies are cancelled until Monday in areas from the south up to the Sharon area

According to the guidelines of the Home Front Command, studies will not be held tomorrow (Thursday) in most parts of the country - from the Gaza Strip to the localities of Gush Dan and the Sharon. Home Front Command guidelines also apply to Friday until the end of the school day. Since schoolchildren go on holiday for weeks, at this stage the studies are expected to resume on Wednesday, after Shavuot has been banned and only if there is an improvement in the security situation.
Following the guidelines, about one million students will not attend school by Wednesday. The guidelines also apply to dormitories, kindergartens, schools as well as universities and colleges.
According to them, no educational activity should be held in localities in the following areas: Gaza Envelope, western Negev and central Negev, western Lachish and Lachish, lowlands and southern lowlands, Gush Dan, the Yarkon area and the Sharon area.
The Home Front Command's guidelines do not apply to summer camps or other educational activities in kindergartens and dormitories planned for next week, and notice will be given later.
Meanwhile, the anti-tank missile hit the fighters' jeep inside the moshav, Sergeant Major Omar Tabib was killed: Tonight (Wednesday) it was announced that Sgt. The anti-tank fire fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.
Tabib, the son of Tali and Amir, was due to be released next month. He attended the Hatikva and Megiddo high schools and was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement. Balikim is said to have been sociable, open and with a sense of humor, and stood out for his presence and the spirit of volunteerism. They said he was witty and full of goodness and a true friend who could be trusted, a conversationalist who knew when to be serious and when to be funny, and loved football very much.
Megiddo Regional Council Chairman Itzik Kholovsky said tonight that it is "a very sad day. This is a terrible disaster for the Tabib family, Moshav Elyakim and the Megiddo Regional Council. The beloved and dear Omar Tabib fell at the gates of Gaza from cursed murderers. He was a charming, kind and talented boy, and I share with all the residents of the council the grief of the dear Tabib family. "
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent condolences to Tabib's family. "I send my best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery to another fighter and another officer who were injured in the attack," Netanyahu added. We will continue to fight with all our might against the terrorists in Gaza. Whoever harms us - bleeds in his head.
Preliminary investigation into the deadly anti-tank incident in the Gaza Strip reveals that a Hamas terrorist cell, which was ambushed on the Gaza side of the border, identified the "David" fighter jeep traveling on the southern side of the hill on which the enrichment route is located. Gaza. The missile hit the vehicle and caused a fire in it, killing Tabib. Another fighter from the 931st Battalion was seriously wounded and the officer who apparently commanded the force was moderately wounded.
Rescue forces, including civilian forces that arrived at the scene, treated the injured. They were able to evacuate them quickly to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, not before Hamas operatives opened massive mortar shells at the scene, slightly injuring one of the shrapnel from a shrapnel wound.
The IDF has banned civilian and military vehicles from traveling and operating in areas near the border, which are exposed to the anti-tank line from the Gaza Strip, due to targeted warnings for such shootings. The army stressed that the force carried out a defense mission to the settlement as required in light of the tensions in the sector, and is now examining whether the jeep was in a pre-defined place as prohibited from staying due to its exposure to the Gaza side. The IDF also noted that in order to prevent similar situations, it was pre-defined for fighters to defend within the localities that are exposed to anti-tank fire on foot and not mounted.
A repeat inspection conducted by the IDF revealed that, contrary to the initial report in the field of the forces, no additional anti-tank missile was fired during the difficult incident. The incident was part of a relentless effort by Hamas and Islamic Jihad to deploy dozens of anti-tank squads near the border with Israel to hit Israeli vehicles, but in most cases this is not possible due to the closure of roads in the Gaza Strip and the self-discipline of the forces.
At the beginning of the escalation on Tuesday evening, a civilian was lightly injured after placing his car on an exposed hill near Sderot, and an anti-tank missile hit his car.
 Since the beginning of the security escalation, the Palestinians have fired about 1,300 rockets into Israeli territory. Seven people were killed in Israel and dozens were injured. Meanwhile, the IDF said that the operation to assassinate senior Hamas figures this afternoon, in which members of the organization's general staff forum working directly under the head of the military wing, Muhammad Daf, severely damaged the terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip. This is due to the extensive knowledge of these senior commanders. And control over Hamas' forces in the Gaza Strip, and over the production and deployment of the rocket array.
In all, IDF forces killed about 25 terrorist operatives in this attack and other targeted killings over the past day, in addition to dozens of other terrorists who tried to launch rockets, anti-tank missiles and armed unmanned aircraft. The 6 senior officials who were killed this afternoon were in various homes throughout the Gaza Strip and their surgical attack was coordinated using missiles from the air within minutes.
IDF Spokesman Brigadier General Hedi Zilberman noted that the army has in recent hours identified field commanders and senior Hamas figures who are behaving as wanted for fear of being killed as well, making it difficult for them to carry out operational operations. Hamas, when it is estimated that these attacks will continue in the next day.
As for the continued firing from the Gaza Strip, the army said that the air defense system is on alert in the north as well and not only in the center. In addition, for fear of violent attacks by gunfire, trampling or knives by extremist Israeli Arabs, it was decided to reinforce the defense at rear bases, especially those near mixed cities such as Lod, Ramla, Acre and Jaffa.