Palestinian gunners launched Saturday morning one home-made Qassam-2 rocket towards an Israeli community close to Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip. No injuries reported.
This attack might lead to further retaliation from Israel, which launched a series of strikes in response to the first Qassam-2 attacks by Palestinian activists against an Israeli community on Sunday.
Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier was killed Friday night in a shooting attack near the West Bank village of Surda, north of Jerusalem. The soldier was shot at from a passing car. Israeli troops present in the area fired at the Palestinian car, but the gunmen escaped.
On Friday, Israeli military sources said Lieutenant Colonel Eyal Weiss, 34, head of the Duvdevan undercover unit, died when a wall damaged by Israeli forces collapsed on him in the village of Saida, near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank.
However, the Islamic Jihad group said later its military arm, the Al-Qods Brigades, killed Weiss during a dawn Israeli incursion in Saida to hunt for its activists. The group said one of its members, Anwar Abdel Ghani, was "liquidated" by the army during the operation, adding that Weiss' killing will show "the leaders of the criminal enemy that their invasion of our cities and villages will not be a pleasant journey."
Israeli public radio added three Islamic Jihad members had been arrested in Saida and another village raided by troops near Jenin, also in the northern West Bank.
In signs of growing tension among Palestinians, hundreds of angry people hurled stones at the offices of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah, AFP reported. The demonstrators, claiming to represent two Palestinian groups and asking for the release of detained activists, were kept back by a cordon of riot police in full gear. (Albawaba.com)
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