hree members of a United Nations force stationed in Gaza were injured on Friday, as Palestinian and Israeli offered contrasting reports of the incident.
According to a report by an IDF spokesperson, the three members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were injured after an errand mortar bomb fired by Gaza militants fired exploded at a UN compound.
Palestinian sources said, however, that the three Palestinian UN workers were wounded after a IDF tank fired a shell toward the Sajaia refugee camp.
The incident came after a relative lull in a recent wave violence along Gaza's border with Israel, one which raised fears of a full-scale confrontation between Israeli forces and Hamas, who rules the coastal enclave.
Late last week, Israel responded to Palestinian rocket fire with two air strikes in the Gaza Strip. The attack came after two rockets were fired from the Hamas-controlled Strip in the direction of the southern Israeli cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon.
Neither caused any injuries or damage, an Israeli police spokesman said.
Israel responded hours later with two air strikes against Hamas targets in the coastal territory, Hamas and the Israeli military said. No one was injured in the strikes.
Violence flared two weeks ago after Hamas militants fired an anti-tank rocket across the border at an Israeli school bus, critically wounding an Israeli teenager, who later succumbed to his wounds. Israel retaliated with air and ground strikes, killing 19 Palestinians.