Israeli airstrike in Gaza (AP archive photo)
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Islamic Jihad cell escapes airstrike
IAF missile narrowly misses car carrying Islamic Jihad rocket squad in southern Gaza Strip
An Islamic Jihad rocket cell narrowly escaped an airstrike Monday afternoon when a missile fired by an IDF drone missed the vehicle carrying the cell's members, Palestinian sources said.
Eyewitnesses said the missile hit within meters of the vehicle as it traveled in the Khan Younis neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip. An Islamic Jihad gunman was lightly injured from shrapnel, but all of the cell members managed to escape.
The IDF confirmed that the Air Force had carried out an airstrike in the area but gave no further details.
Two members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's military wing, were injured earlier Sunday in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF confirmed it had targeted gunmen in the area responsible for the firing of Qassam rockets toward Israel.
Israel launched on Sunday an intense aerial campaign against gunmen in the Gaza Strip in a bid to quell daily rocket attacks against southern Israeli towns and kibbutzim.
Palestinian eyewitnesses reported that dozens of Israeli helicopters and UAVs had been hovering over the Gaza Strip since early Sunday morning.
The latest campaign against rocket cells in the Gaza Strip was sparked by a barrage of rockets fired towards Sderot on Sunday as pupils returned to school.
The rockets landed in open fields in the western Negev.
