Gaza militants fire mortar, anti-tank missile at IDF troops

Gaza militants fired a mortar shell and an anti-tank missile at Israel Defense Forces troops south of the coastal territory on Thursday, Army Radio reported.

The incident, which was the latest incident in a series of cross-border attacks, caused neither damage nor casualties.

On Wednesday, Israel Air Force warplanes bombed three smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza, near its border with Egypt, wounding four people.

The IDF confirmed the attack, which it launched a few hours after militants in the Hamas-ruled Strip launched three mortar shells at the western Negev.

The mortar salvo came one day after the New York Times published an interview with Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal, whose Islamist group controls Gaza, in which he said gunmen in the coastal strip had unilaterally ceased cross border attacks.