Less than a day after IAF planes struck two smuggling tunnels in separate air strikes on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, two Kassam rockets reportedly struck open areas in the Sha'ar Hanegev region on Saturday morning.
If confirmed, the latest rocket attacks would be the second since Thursday, when Palestinians fired a rocket into the Eshkol region. In both the Saturday and Thursday incidents, nobody was physically wounded, and no damage was reported.
Palestinians, however, reported that one person was lightly wounded in the retaliatory airstrikes.
Some two weeks ago, senior defense officials told The Jerusalem Post that Israel had yet to decide whether to purchase the US Vulcan Phalanx to counter the Kassam threat and would only make a decision after viewing a live test of the rapid-cannon system scheduled for this summer.
Meanwhile, on Friday, some ten Palestinians clashed with a group of settlers near the Havat Gilad outpost in the Shomron.
The settlers claimed that the Palestinians entered an agricultural area in Havat Gilad with two tractors.
IDF troops broke up the fighting and were pelted with stones thrown by the Palestinians. No one was reported wounded.
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