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| Troops come under fire on Gaza border after PM visits area |
| 2016-05-04 |
| [IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media says IDF returning fire near Nahal Oz, shortly after Netanyahu visits frontier communities further south Shots fired from the Gazoo Strip on Tuesday afternoon struck an IDF vehicle near the northern border with the Paleostinian enclave, the army said in a statement. No injuries were reported, but heavy army engineering machinery was damaged by the volley, which came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured a southern section of the Gazoo frontier. Troops were searching the area for the attacker, the IDF spokesperson said. Paleostinian media in the Gazoo Strip reported intense gunfire by Israeli forces near Nahal Oz immediately after the report of shots striking the vehicle. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from Gazoo, which has seen increased tensions with Israel in recent weeks, with Israeli officials warning of a possible uptick in violence. The army did not detail what kind of engineering vehicle was struck, but Israel frequently uses earth-moving equipment on the border to dig out and destroy Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, tunnels running under the border. The incident came several hours after Netanyahu visited the southern part of the Gazoo border with top IDF brass and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, near the site where the army discovered a Hamas tunnel last month. Earlier in the day, Israel’s Tax Authority said an attempt to smuggle several tons of ammonium chloride into the Gazoo Strip in recent weeks had been foiled by security and customs officials. Some four tons of the chemical -- enough to make hundreds of rockets, according to Israeli security officials -- were found buried in salt shipments to the Gazoo Strip that were making their way through the Nitzana crossing between Israel and Egypt in early April. |
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