Palestinian killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza

Hamas and the Israeli Army said on Wednesday in Gaza that an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip has killed one Palestinian militant and injured four others.

Israeli farmers were instructed not to come near the border fence in light of the possibility of retaliation from the Strip.

The Palestinian Maan news agency reported that along with the one death, three others were injured in the strike.

However, a senior Israeli officer told Ha’aretz that he was part of a “terrorist cell” from a still-unidentified group.

Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, IDF Spokesman:”Forces guarding the Border with Gaza face a growing threat from hostile terror groups attempting to destabilize the situation on the ground”.

Meanwhile, Israeli troops raided Beit Lahia, threatening the residents to leave the town.

Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007 after a battle with Fatah, which runs the Palestinian Authority.

At least 141 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since mid-September.

Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have vocally supported the individual attacks recently carried out inside of Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank, but have yet to partake in what Hamas has termed an intifada.

Israeli leaders said after the 2014 war that they will look into a technological solution that would enable security forces to detect tunnels being dug near the border fence, at an approximate cost of 700 million USA dollars, but the current defense budget does not include such an allocation, according to the daily’s report. From Gaza, he sneaked through the “death zone” border area to Israel, then to the occupied West Bank, where he hid in the Hebron hills, before being smuggled with a tribe that escaped the war to Jordan.