The Air Force targeted Arab terrorists in Gaza twice after midnight Wednesday, killing two and wounding four others. The counterterrorist attack came several hours after an Iranian-made missile exploded in an Ashkelon shopping center, leaving four people, one of them a baby, in serious condition. At least 90 others suffered injuries, including shock, in the rocket attack.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert repeated previous statements that Israel would not allow the rocket attacks to continue.