Gaza strike (illustrative)
Gaza strike (illustrative)Israel news photo: (file)

IDF soldiers killed two terrorists in northern Gaza on Sunday afternoon as they attempted to plant a bomb along the Gaza security barrier. Three other terrorists were wounded.

Soldiers reported seeing a group of suspects approach the barrier across from the town of Kfar Aza. They were ordered to stop, but ignored both the order and subsequent warning shots, soldiers reported. Soldiers then fired a tank shell, killing two.

The two were later identified as Abed al-Silawi of Hamas and Mahmoud Ahmed Nasir of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Military sources reported that both Silawi and Nasir had been involved in previous attacks and attempted attacks, including a mortar shell attack one month ago in which an IDF soldier was lightly wounded.

On Saturday, the Color Red rocket alert system was activated in the western Negev. The system detected two rockets en route from northern Gaza to Sderot. Security officials in the southern Negev have not yet located the sites of the rocket strikes; no injuries have been reported.

The Ansar a-Sunna terrorist group claimed responsibility for the Saturday attack.