Rocket from Sinai strikes Eilat
A long-range Grad rocket fired from the Egypt hit a near a residential area in Eilat.
A long-range Grad rocket fired from the Egypt hit a near a residential area in Eilat.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel remains on alert against an attack from Sinai despite killing the terrorist leader that was planning an attack from there — an assassination that has led to a barrage of rockets raining down on southern Israel from Gaza by terrorist groups.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has offered to facilitate the exchange of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for Palestinian prisoners and is discussing this with Israel and Gaza\’s Hamas rulers, an ICRC spokesman said on Thursday.
A pipeline that carries gas from Egypt to Israel was attacked for the sixth time in less than a year.
Israelis have been barred from entering Egypt\’s Sinai Peninsula via the Taba crossing due to serious and credible terror threats.
Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their arsenal, Israeli officials said on Monday.
Israel will allow more Egyptian troops to be deployed in the Sinai in order to keep order in the increasingly chaotic peninsula, according to a report in The Economist.
Israel and Islamic Jihad militants agreed to halt fire on Friday after days of deadly cross border violence, a Palestinian official said.
A woman was injured by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into the Egyptian town of Rafah on Wednesday, Egypt\’s state news agency MENA reported, as tension simmered in the region after a spate of cross-border violence.
Gunmen killed seven people in southern Israel on Thursday in attacks along the Egyptian border and Israel responded with an air strike in the Gaza Strip that killed six Palestinians, including the leaders of a group it blamed for the violence.