The latest flare-up in Gaza showed no sign of abating Sunday afternoon, when two people were killed and three others were injured — according to Palestinian reports — in an Israeli air strike on a group of armed Palestinians near Deir al-Balah.
Israeli military sources said the IAF launched a strike on a terror cell that was preparing to fire rockets into Israel.
Earlier on Sunday afternoon, a mortar shell was fired from Gaza at the Eshkol region. No damage or injuries were reported.
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Sunday’s events are the latest in a series of exchanges between Israel and an obscure Salafi terror group known as the Mujahideen Shura Council. On Friday, members of the al-Qaeda-linked group fired a rocket that landed in the yard of a house in the southern Israeli city of Netivot. There were no injuries in that attack.
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In response, the IAF struck terrorist targets in Gaza early Saturday morning. Late Saturday night, an Israeli strike hit in Jabalia in northern Gaza killed Salafi terror chief Hisham Al-Sa’adani.
Early Sunday morning, Yasser Muhammad al-Atal, 24, an active member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was killed in another strike, which targeted a motorcycle east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza strip. One other man was reportedly injured.
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