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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Army confirms officer wounded on Gaza border, says it’s not yet clear how
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Israel Defense Forces says an officer was lightly injured by Palestinian rioters during clashes along the southern Gaza border, but says it is not yet sure if he was hit by rocks or by gunfire.
Earlier, Israeli media reported the officer had been shot and moderately wounded.
The IDF says the nature of the officer’s wounds are still being investigated and it cannot say definitively what caused them.
In response to the clashes and the injury of the officer, an IDF tank targeted a Hamas observation post in the southern Gaza Strip, the army says.
— Judah Ari Gross
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