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World Jewish News
IAF bombs two smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza Strip
01.05.2009
The IAF bombed two smuggling tunnels in two separate air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, the IDF said.
Gaza health official Moaiya Hassanain said one person was lightly wounded.
The air strikes came a day after a Kassam rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Strip hit the Eshkol region. No one was wounded and no damage was reported in the attack.
Reports of a second rocket attack Friday turned out to be falseSome two weeks ago, senior defense officials told The Jerusalem Post that Israel had yet to decide whether to purchase the US Vulcan Phalanx to counter the Kassam threat and would only make a decision after viewing a live test of the rapid-cannon system scheduled for this summer.
Also Friday, some ten Palestinians clashed with a group of settlers near the Havat Gilad outpost in the Shomron.
The settlers claimed that the Palestinians entered an agricultural area in Havat Gilad with two tractors.
IDF troops broke up the fighting and were pelted with stones thrown by the Palestinians. No one was reported wounded.
Overnight Thursday, IDF troops arrested nine Palestinian terror suspects in the West Bank.
Three suspects were arrested near Jenin, two near Nablus, two in the Ramallah area and two close to Hebron. They were all transferred for interrogation.
Also Thursday night, Palestinians threw two Molotov cocktails at Israeli vehicles traveling near Bethlehem in the West Bank. There were no casualties, but a car sustained damage.
Yaakov Katz contributed to this report
Источник: JPost.com
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