By JPOST.COM STAFF
21/05/2010 05:09
AF jets struck one tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip, and two in the south Thursday overnight in activity coordinated with the Israeli Security Agency, the IDF spokesman announced Friday.
The tunnels, which were located near the security fence that surrounds Gaza, were meant to bring terrorists into Israel for planned attacks Israeli soldiers and civilians, IDF spokesman added.
No Palestinians were hurt in the attacks.
The strike came in response to a Kassam rocket fired from northern Gaza late Thursday, which landed near Ashkelon causing no damage, the first in ten days of quiet.
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IDF kills 2 terrorist infiltrators
By JPOST.COM STAFF21/05/2010 16:20
Two Palestinian terrorists attempted to cross the border into Israel from the Gaza strip Friday afternoon and were killed by IDF forces, Israel Radio reported.
The Islamic Jihad terror group claimed responsibility for the attack.
he IDF sustained no casualties in the incident, which occurred near Kibbutz Nirim on the border with Gaza.
The two terrorists successfully crossed the border fence and hid in a ditch 20 meters into Israeli territory, where they were identified and attacked by the IDF.
As soon as the incident began, several neighboring communities were placed under security alert due to the risk of additional infiltrations, roads were closed and IDF helicopters arrived to assist the search.
As the firefight continued unabated, the IDF began a mortar bombardment of the target area. The Palestinians answered back with mortar fire of their own and the altercation was still going on as of 4 p.m. Friday.
Palestinian fire erupted again Friday night as an IDF soldier was lightly wounded by a sniper in the same area.
The two incidents follow the Thursday Israeli Air Force strike on three border tunnels in Gaza in response to a Kassam missile launched at Israel that day
