Agencies
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, Gaza medical sources said Sunday after four soldiers were wounded in an apparent bomb attack on the border with the Palestinian enclave.
The Saturday explosion and ensuing Israeli airstrikes marked one of the most serious escalations in the Hamas-ruled enclave since the Islamist movement and Israel fought a war in 2014.
Israel's army said it attacked "18 terror targets belonging to the Hamas terror organisation" in two waves of air strikes following the blast.
Eight targets were attacked in a military compound near Deir el Balah, which belongs to the Hamas terror organisation, including weapon-manufacturing and training infrastructures," it said in a statement early Sunday.
It earlier said fighter jets had targeted "six military targets in Gaza belonging to Hamas, including a terror tunnel in the Zaytun area and military compounds near Deir el-Balah and Khan Yunis".
The army also reported that a "launch was identified from the Gaza Strip at Israeli territory", with a projectile hitting near a home in a southern Israeli community.
An Israeli police spokesman said the projectile had damaged a building but caused no injuries.
The two Palestinian fatalities were identified by the Gaza health ministry as Salam Sabah and Abdullah Abu Sheikha, both 17, who were killed east of Rafah in southern Gaza. |
