[Jerusalem Post Front Page] The IAF on Thursday evening demolished a booby-trapped building in central Gaza in the first air strike in over a month, the army said. Palestinians reported no casualties in the attack near the Gaza border as the structure was unoccupied at the time of the strike.
It came a day after a Kassam rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip landed in an open area in the Eshkol region. No one was wounded and no damage was reported in the first Kassam attack since the end of last month, when two rockets slammed into the western Negev, causing neither casualties nor damage.
Also Thursday, Egyptian security forces arrested nine Sinai Beduin near the Gaza border on suspicion of smuggling weapons, merchandise and money to Hamas. Two of the suspects were caught at the Rafah border crossing in possession of more than $90,000.
On Wednesday, Egyptian police discovered 900 kilograms of TNT hidden in 18 sacks near the border with Gaza. In addition, Egyptian authorities arrested three young Palestinians on suspicion of infiltrating into the country.