Israel strikes Gaza after overnight mortar attack
Israel strikes Gaza after overnight mortar attack – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.
Kibbutz security chief is the first casualty of rocket fire from Gaza since March.
By Reuters
The IDF launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, hours after a mortar shell fired by militants wounded a man at an agricultural community close to the border, IDF officials said.
A military spokeswoman said the strikes were aimed at three separate targets in the Gaza Strip, two of which militants confirmed were sites they used for training. No casualties were reported.
 |
A rocket that landed in a Jewish community in the region bordering Gaza. |
| Photo by: Limor Edri |
The IDF strike was apparently in retaliation for a rocket attack from Gaza on Wednesday night. Gaza militants fired about five mortar rounds late on Wednesday and fragments from one of them wounded one man.
The man, the head of security in one of the kibbutzim in the Eshkol region, which borders the Gaza Strip, was reportedly hit in the neck by a piece of shrapnel outside his home. He was taken by helicopter to hospital in Beersheba, but his wounds were not life-threatening, the IDF spokeswoman said.
He was the first casualty from shells fired by Gaza militants into Israel since March when an agricultural laborer from Thailand was killed when he was hit by a mortar shell.
Residents of surrounding towns were ordered by the Israel Defense Forces to stay in their shelters until further notice.
Earlier this month Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed two armed Palestinian militants suspected to trying to infiltrate through the Gaza Strip border.
WarSclerotic 
December 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM
THESE ARE THE KIND OF INTIMIDATIONS THAT IRAN HAS COPIED FROM NORTH KOREA AND THE SAME IN RETURN AS THEY COPY EACHOTHERS HOMEWORK AND CONTINUE TO EMASS A NUCLEAR MISSILE CAPABILITY TO THUMB THEIR NOSES AT DEMOCRACY AND INTIMIDATE ISRAEL AS WELL. THEY WILL ALWAYS HOLD ANOTHER TRUMPCARD TO WAIVE IN FRONT OF THE WEST IN THIS SHOWDOWN. BUT THE REAL-TIME HUMILIATION WILL COME WHEN THEY LAUNCH AN ATTACK OF US OR ISRAELI FORCES. FOR THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT IS FAILING TO RECOGNIZE ITS LACK OF POTENTIAL TO BACKUP THEIR CONTINGENCIES AS THEY BACK FURTHER INTO THE SPIDERHOLE AND DIE.