IDF soldiers killed ten Palestinian Authority terrorists in fierce fighting in Gaza by Sunday mid-afternoon. Two of the dead were killed by IAF pilots in an air strike in northern Gaza.

Terrorists in northern Gaza continue to launch Kassam rocket attacks at civilians in western Negev towns. More than a dozen Kassams had exploded in southern Israel by midday, wounding at least one person, sending eight others into shock and damaging buildings in a number of communities.

PA sources claimed the number of Gazan Arabs killed in the clashes between IDF soldiers and terrorists since early Saturday morning was up to 70. Reports of the number of Gazan civilians killed in the fighting varied, depending on the source, but most reports claimed approximately 12 collateral casualties.