"The Israeli government will not allow the terrorist organizations to set the agenda in the Gaza Strip and threaten the citizens of the State of Israel. 
Let anyone who wants to harm Israel know that we will get to him.

The security forces will act against the Islamic Jihad terrorists to remove the threat from the citizens of Israel."

Lapid added that the strike was "aimed at removing a concrete threat to the citizens of Israel and the surroundings of Gaza as well as striking against terrorists and those who send them."