Following the killing of Wt. Officer Barak Madmon outside Kfar Darom in a Palestinian mortar attack last night, IDF helicopters bombarded several Arab targets in Gaza early this morning. The list of retaliation targets included PA military intelligence in Khan Yunis, Fatah offices in Dir el-Balah, and elsewhere. Two Israeli soldiers were wounded together with Madmon, and three Arabs were hurt in today\'s retaliation. The residents of Kfar Darom are striking in Jerusalem today, in protest of the continued mortar attacks on theirs and nearby towns and IDF positions. The Arabs have fired roughly 500 mortar shells on the area - seventy in the past month alone; one of them blasted through the roof of a N\'vei Dekalim house into a room where a baby was sleeping only meters away; he was unharmed.



Barak Madmon will be buried this afternoon in the military cemetery in Binyamina, east of Hadera.