Israel bomb Hamas bases, killing two Palestinians, after border blast wounds four Israeli guards
Border incident involved highest number of Israelis wounded in a single attack since the 2014 Gaza war, media reports said
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air attack, Gaza medical sources said on Sunday, after four soldiers were wounded in an apparent bombing on the border with the Palestinian enclave.
Israel’s army said it attacked “18 terror targets” belonging to Hamas in two waves of air strikes following the blast.
“Eight targets were attacked in a military compound near Deir el Balah, which belongs to the Hamas terror organisation, including weapon-manufacturing and training infrastructures,” it said in a statement on Sunday.
The two Palestinian fatalities were identified by the Gaza health ministry as Salam Sabah and Abdullah Abu Sheikha, both 17, who were killed east of Rafah in southern Gaza.
According to Palestinian witnesses, they were shot by Israeli forces near the border on Saturday.
The Israeli army said its forces had fired “warning shots” at a number of Palestinians approaching the border “in a suspicious manner”.