IDF aircraft target smuggling tunnels on Gaza-Egyptian border after Palestinian rocket lands near Sderot home, wounds resident
Hanan Greenberg
Published: | 05.19.09, 22:32 / Israel News |
Hours after a Qassam rocket disrupted the tense calm in Sderot and the neighboring Gaza-vicinity communities, the IAF launched a strike in the southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinian witnesses reported that the IDF was targeting smuggling tunnels in the Rafah area, through which terror groups bring weaponry from Egypt into the Strip.
The army confirmed the strike. No injuries or damage have been reported thus far.
Earlier in the evening a resident of Sderot sustained light shrapnel wounds following a Qassam rocket attack on the town. The rocket exploded in a courtyard adjacent to two private homes.
The woman was evacuated to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. Several others were treated at the scene for shock. Damage was caused to several buildings.
The rocket landed just as Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno was touring Sderot with Noam Shalit, father of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. |
The two arrived at the impact site, and talked to residents who had gathered there.
Shalit said he had been surprised by the attack after the sustained period of calm, and told the residents that he sympathized fully with their feelings.
Many residents, on their part, urged Shalit to be more vocal and less polite in his efforts to secure his son's release
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