Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday at night that five Palestinians were injured in two consecutive air strikes carried by the Israeli Air Force against the “Tunnels Area” on the border line between Rafah and the Egypt.
The sources stated that the five residents were moved to Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital, in Khan Younis, and described their injuries as mild-to-moderate.
Eyewitnesses reported that three Israeli F16 fighter jets fired several missiles into the area.
Over the last five days, the army repeated shelled border areas between Gaza and Egypt, especially in areas believed to include tunnels used for smuggling goods into the besieged Gaza Strip.
Earlier on Wednesday, the army claimed that Palestinian fighters fired a mortar shell that landed on the coast of Ashkelon, and that the fighters also fired more than five mortars that hit open areas in the Western Negev.
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Palestinians inspect a crater caused by an Israeli air strike on smuggling tunnels in Rafah near the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip.
Agencies