Israel’s air force bombed two tunnels designed to allow Palestinian terrorists to infiltrate Israel.
The tunnels destroyed Friday night were dug close to the Gaza-Israel border and were intended for infiltrating into Israel and executing a terror attack against Israeli civilians and Israeli soldiers, according to the IDF spokesman’s office.
The operation was in retaliation for the launching from Gaza of two Grad type rockets, which have a range of about 13 miles, which hit the Israeli town of Netivot late Thursday.
No one in the Israeli town was hurt, though the Color Red early warning alarm reportedly did not go off.
The Aksa Martyrs Brigades on Friday claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for the killing of three of its members by the IDF in Nablus last week. The terrorists were murdered while refusing arrest for shooting to death 45-year-old father of seven Avshalom Meir Chai.
The attack Thursday night follows a mortar attack on Wednesday, which was the first attack from Gaza into Israel in two weeks.
“The IDF will not tolerate the firing of rockets by terrorist organizations at Israel and will continue to respond against any attempt to disrupt the calm in Israel’s southern communities,” according to the IDF statement.
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