An armed terrorist was hit by IDF fire as he approached the security fence near the Gaza town of el-Buraij at approximately 5:00 p.m. Wednesday evening. An IDF spokeswoman says the extent of his injuries is not known.
In a separate attack at around the same time, IDF troops attacked a terrorist cell near Beit Hanoun as it was firing mortars at Jewish targets in the western Negev. It was not clear whether any of the terrorists were hit by the gunfire. The mortars landed in open fields, with no injuries or damage reported.
The Israel Air Force (IAF) released footage [shown below] showing terrorists shelling Israeli targets from inside a school courtyard, in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun.
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The footage of the Monday attack shows a terrorist setting up the mortar a meter or two from the front doors of the school and launching it. An IAF pilot fired at the terrorist some time after he launched the mortar.
A mortar shell fired from northern Gaza also exploded near Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the western Negev Wednesday night. Initial reports said the shell hurt no one and caused no damage.
The IDF spokeswoman denied a Palestinian Authority report of an air strike on a car carrying Islamic Jihad terrorists Wednesday afternoon in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.
A PA source also claimed IDF ground troops killed an Islamic Jihad terrorist during a firefight in central Gaza earlier in the day. The source identified the dead terrorist as 23-year-old Mahmoud al-Hajj, according to Haaretz, which said the IDF declined to comment on the matter.