IDF Shells Hamas in Response to Shooting

The Fellowship  |  January 25, 2017

Military tank in the field while soldiers are walking around beside it.
IDF Shells Hamas in Response to Shooting

Yesterday, two shooting attacks were made on IDF forces along Israel’s borders – one in the Galilee near Lebanon, and the other near Gaza. In response, Ynet News reports, the IDF fired back at a Hamas outpost in Gaza:

An IDF tank shelled a Hamas outpost in the center of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in retaliation for two incidents of shooting at IDF forces earlier in the day.

No soldiers were injured and no damage was reported in the shooting, which took place towards soldiers along the border of the strip with Re’im, a nearby kibbutz.

Before that, an IDF force reported the sound of firing during regular operations that they were carrying out in the area of Metula in the upper Galilee on the Lebanese border. No soldiers were reported injured or damage reported in that case, either…

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