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IAF targets Gaza terror cell preparing to launch rockets into Israel | JPost | Israel News.

( 19:58 – 4 rocket volleys from Gaza  in last 5 mins… –  JW )

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, REUTERS

 LAST UPDATED: 04/23/2014 17:40

Shin Bet identifies terror cell, attempts to thwart “imminent threat to Israeli security,” but strike misses target.

The IAF attempted  to strike a terror cell in the Gaza Strip that was preparing to fire rockets into Israel on Wednesday, security sources said.

The terror cell was identified by the Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) and constituted an imminent threat to Israeli security, according to the sources.

The IAF acknowledged that the strike missed its target. Medical officials in the Hamas-ruled territory said
that four people were wounded in the strike.

The attack came two days after terrorists in the Palestinian enclave launched seven rockets into southern Israel.

There was no immediate word on the identities of those wounded in the air strike, launched just after Hamas Islamists and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organization announced a unity agreement in Gaza City.

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