Israel Defense Forces warplanes on Tuesday attacked the southern Gaza Strip near its border with Egypt, several hours after a rocket fired from the coastal territory exploded in the yard of a western Negev home. There were no reports of casualties from the IDF air strike, which appeared to have targeted tunnels used to smuggle weapons into Gaza from neighboring Egypt.
The Qassam fired just hours before struck between two houses in the Negev town of Sderot on Tuesday, causing extensive damage to one building and lightly wounding an 18-year-old in the other house. The teenager was taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds in his back. The rocket was the first to hit the region after more than a week of relative calm. Sderot itself has not been struck in almost two months.
