Shortly after Hamas' deputy politburo leader Moussa Abu-Marzouk announced that attacks against Israeli targets would continue, an IDF soldier was lightly wounded by enemy gunfire directed at a Rafiah area outpost in southern Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, as it had for last night's Kassam rocket strike on Sderot. A 15-year-old Israeli girl sustained critical injuries and her 10-year-old brother was moderately-to-seriously injured in the latter incident.
On Israel's northern front, the Hizbullah terrorist organization detonated an explosive device in the Mt. Dov area Friday morning. The explosion, targeting IDF soldiers patrolling the region, was the second such incident in one week on the Lebanese border. The last such attack killed IDF Captain Sharon Elmakias, 23, and injured a number of other soldiers.
The IDF Spokesperson's Office laid the blame for the multiple bombings at the door of Lebanon, for "allowing attacks to be perpetrated from its territory," and of Syria, for "guiding and supervising Lebanon." Both states, the army spokesperson said, "should operate intensively and thoroughly in order to uproot Hizbullah and all terrorist organizations operating from Lebanon."
On Israel's northern front, the Hizbullah terrorist organization detonated an explosive device in the Mt. Dov area Friday morning. The explosion, targeting IDF soldiers patrolling the region, was the second such incident in one week on the Lebanese border. The last such attack killed IDF Captain Sharon Elmakias, 23, and injured a number of other soldiers.
The IDF Spokesperson's Office laid the blame for the multiple bombings at the door of Lebanon, for "allowing attacks to be perpetrated from its territory," and of Syria, for "guiding and supervising Lebanon." Both states, the army spokesperson said, "should operate intensively and thoroughly in order to uproot Hizbullah and all terrorist organizations operating from Lebanon."