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IAF strikes Gaza after Qassams wound five people in Negev
By Mijal Grinberg and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents, DPA
Tags: Gaza, gunmen, Israel

An Israel Air Force strike wounded three Islamic Jihad militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday after cross-border rockets fired from the territory wounded five people in Israel.

One of the Islamic Jihad militants was critically injured in the air strike near the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis, medical officials and Islamic Jihad said.

An Israel Defense Forces spokesman said the air strike had targeted a single "armed Palestinian as he was preparing to launch rockets" into Israel.
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The spokesman said the same area had been used by militants earlier in the day to launch rockets at Israel.

At least three rockets struck the Eshkol Regional Council earlier in the day, and two of them caused injuries. One person suffered moderate wounds and the rest were lightly hurt. All of the injuries were caused by shrapnel from the rockets. The Israel Defense Forces said a Thai laborer was among the wounded.

Two of the rockets stuck open areas, and the third struck a chicken coop in Moshav Yesha, where a woman was killed by a Qassam roughly one month ago. That rocket caused damage to a nearby structure.

Several hours earlier, a Katyusha rocket struck an open field in the Eshkol Regional Council. The rocket did not cause any injuries nor damage, but the Red Color alert system did not sound before it struck. Preliminary reports suggested the rocket was smaller than the Grad-type Katyushas that have been fired from Gaza in the past.

IDF soldier moderately wounded in Gaza
Also on Tuesday, a Palestinian gunman wounded an Israel Defense Forces soldier operating in the Gaza Strip near the Kissufim crossing on Tuesday morning.

The soldier was evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva with wounds described as moderate.

The shooting attack in Gaza occured while IDF troops were operating in the coastal territory, close to the Israeli border, and came under sniper fire.

One dead, four injured in Gaza tunnel collapse

An underground tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah
collapsed Monday night, killing one person, Palestinian security officials said Tuesday.

Four other men caught in the tunnel cave-in were taken to the hospital suffering the effects of suffocation.

Rafah residents estimate that hundreds of tunnels are dug under the adjacent Egyptian border and used to smuggle weapons, fuel, medicines and other goods into the Gaza Strip.

Hamas, which administers the Strip, turns a blind eye to the smuggling, which has increased after Israel intensified its blockade of Gaza, and Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing point, after the Islamist movement seized control of the enclave nearly one year ago.

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      2.   IDF is cheapening out 11:00  |  Dror 03/06/08
      3.   What We Must Do In Gaza To Bring Peace: 11:54  |  Yishai Kohen 03/06/08
      4.   If the Palestinian entered Israel what would happen? 11:57  |  Natallie Durson 03/06/08
      5.   Israel should uproot Hamas once and for all. 12:37  |  Jean Van Daem 03/06/08
      6.   No proper response 12:51  |  Phil 03/06/08
      7.   dream more 12:53  |  dreamer 03/06/08
      8.   TO YISHAI KOHEN 13:40  |  SHIMON MIZRAHE 03/06/08
      9.   #4 Natallie Durson 13:59  |  Daniela 03/06/08
      10.   Let`s ;ook at the upside of it 14:16  |  Yonatan 03/06/08
      11.   Enough is enough -stop the game! 14:17  |  Vital 03/06/08
      12.   To Shimon Mizrahe 14:37  |  Alon 03/06/08
      13.   Shimon Mizrahe is an impostor Alon 14:59  |  Dror 03/06/08
      14.   Incompetent government vs Rocket attacks 14:59  |  Brod 03/06/08
      15.   IN response, Israel will target unarmed civilians 15:08  |  POP 03/06/08
      16.   Kudos to the Defense of the Warsaw Ghetto 15:15  |  POP 03/06/08
      17.   #4 Yes, looking for Palestinian Caused Trouble 15:25  |  DesMnsDave 03/06/08
      18.   #4 NUTallie - Of course they`re looking for trouble 15:52  |  * BEN JABO 03/06/08
      19.   Pathetic 16:08  |  Dror 03/06/08
      20.   #15 Prove it, Pop 16:11  |  DesMnsDave 03/06/08
      21.   or Yishai 16:23  |  Dave Duncan 03/06/08
      22.   outsider 16:24  |  Di, the doubter 03/06/08
      23.   The Arabs dream 16:37  |  Fish 03/06/08
      24.   Hamas is run by immoral idiots...way to go IDF 16:57  |  The Equalizer 03/06/08
      25.   No terrorists dead??? 17:03  |  JP 03/06/08
      26.   To SHIMON MIZRAHE 17:22  |  Jean Van Daem 03/06/08
      27.   #15 POP YOU POOPER U R LIKE A DIAPER 17:25  |  POP`S KEEPER 03/06/08
      28.   you are blockading Gaza, what do you expect ? 17:45  |  mehmet 03/06/08
      29.   POP 17:45  |  ChanahS 03/06/08
      30.   #15 POP - "Unarmed civilians 17:51  |  Yonatan 03/06/08
      31.   #13 Shimon Mizrahe is an impostor 17:52  |  JG 03/06/08
      32.   Government can`t decide what to do 18:07  |  Sam 03/06/08
      33.   Bunker Buster the border between Egypt and Gaza 18:09  |  Jon 03/06/08
      34.   mehmet: Think about A GREAT FAULT OF TURKS: MURDERED ARMENIANS 18:15  |  Vittorio 03/06/08
      35.   Who is this `POP` character?? 18:23  |  The Judge 03/06/08
      36.   Durson`s moral credentials 18:27  |  Mark 03/06/08
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      39.   To Yishai Kohen 18:31  |  The Judge 03/06/08
      40.   Woop di do 18:32  |  Dror 03/06/08
      41.   mehmet - full compliance 18:34  |  Fish 03/06/08
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      45.   #3 There were other people in the past 18:43  |  C 03/06/08
      46.   Yishai Kohen 18:51  |  Dror 03/06/08
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      50.   ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF 19:26  |  Igor D. 03/06/08
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      52.   49 Dutch - It`s shocking that your mother 19:32  |  * BEN JABO 03/06/08
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      54.   Mehmet from Istanbul 19:41  |  David Israel 03/06/08
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      58.   4. Natallie Durson: If they entered 19:48  |  KUTW 03/06/08
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