Palestinian Authority terrorists in northern Gaza launched a rocket attack on the southern coastal city of Ashkelon Friday morning. One Kassam rocket was fired, and exploded in the city’s industrial zone. No one was injured and no damage was reported in the attack.
Members of the Popular Resistance Committees’ Salah al-Din Brigades terrorist group also fired two mortar shells toward the Kissufim Crossing at around the same time. No one was injured and no damage was reported in this attack, which was aimed at an IDF paratroop unit that was patrolling along the security barrier in the area.
Israel has kept the crossings with Gaza closed for most of the time in the past couple of weeks, in retaliation for the constant rocket and mortar attacks on Jewish communities in the south.
In addition, IDF ground troops have carried out two limited counterterrorist operations and IAF pilots have carried out a number of targeted air strikes in response to the attacks, killing more than a dozen terrorists and wounding an undetermined number of others who launched the attacks against Jewish civilians in the Gaza Belt in recent weeks.
The Hamas terrorist organization that controls the region appears to have gotten the message and passed it along to fellow terrorist groups in the area: rocket attacks have slowed to a trickle from the more than 170 missiles and mortar shells that were fired in the past two weeks, to only one on Thursday afternoon.
In other security news, IDF soldiers arrested a PA Arab suspected of involvement in terrorist activities late Thursday night. The suspect was caught in a village south of Hevron. He was transferred to security services for questioning.