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(IsraelNN.com) A new terrorist group calling itself “The Nation’s Army” has claimed responsibility for two shootings that took place on Friday morning.  The group is linked to international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, which recently vowed to increase its attacks on Israel and Jews worldwide.

Gaza terrorists fired on young volunteers on Friday morning as they worked in the fields near Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha, where a young man was killed in a similar attack earlier in the year.  No injuries were reported.  A short time later terrorists fired on a group of agriculturalists touring near Kibbutz Nir Am.  Mati Gil, the bureau chief of Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, was moderately wounded in the attack.  Dichter and others were unhurt.